A CIRCULAÇÃO EM ARQUITETURA:

COM BASE EM ANÁLISE DE PROJETO

Abstract

The present master’s research, already finished, investigated the role of circulation of people and goods in architecture. The questions of circulation, usually underestimated in the analysis phase of the design process, impact the configuration of space, its articulation and functionality. As the design process in architecture, in the contemporaneity, became more complex, also increased the responsibilities on the professional and the need of support tools based on scientific knowledge and analysis of projects. Thus, a set of parameters able to support the design process was created in the research, through analysis of contemporary architecture. The methodology consisted of the graphic analysis of the role of circulation in examples of contemporary architectural projects. The sample consisted of four library projects – with technical support information – of architects awarded the Pritzker Prize between 2000 and 2017. The results were methodological and conceptual, with the creation of a graphic matrix of concepts of circulations issues in architecture. The graphical analysis method proved to be efficient in revealing new concepts about circulation in architecture, and this new matrix was considered an important contribution in the practice of the professional and academic design process, because it allows more creative resolution and configuration for the architectural space.