Profile

Email

jorgembfsantos@gmail.com

Science ID

D118-BBD7-31E9

Ciênciavitae

n/a

ORCID

Lab2PT Group

DeTech - Design and Technology

Scientific Area

Arts; Architecture

Supervision

Elisiário Miranda

Project Title

An exercise for the memory - drawn script for an intervention proposal on ruins

Abstract

There's nothing like starting off in search of an unknown horizon in order to shape the idea of the properties that characterize the places in loco, something difficult to realize without an experience that puts our senses to the test. The script of this investigation is geographically related to the idea of travelling along national and forest roads through the rural area of the Barroso region, in northern Portugal. I propose to draw ruins in all contexts, to understand them as a memory of something, or as something new, to perceive technical and constructive relationships as well as basic adequacy characteristics to the place where they are inserted. Drawing in the conquest of spaces with sketches, stains, straight lines and curves, and other forms of representing the best of the pre-existences that mark the profile of landscapes, cities, and times. “An exercise for the memory – drawn script for an intervention proposal on ruins”, intends to focus, in a first phase, on deepening the theme of traveling and drawing as fundamental elements for the training, learning, and understanding of architecture, its places, and circumstances. The ruins reflect the ephemerality of our existence, as time passes, they deteriorate, ageing and being returned to nature, although some remain eternal, ageless. I search for ruins to draw and understand them, to build a personal memory, but always aware that they are also memories of something that existed before, trying to avoid the risk of losing myself in its beauty through its contemplation, and, in the end, not even getting to know them.

Keywords

Ruins, drawing, memory

FCT Reference

2022.12685.BD

Organic Unit

School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho