Possibilidades de Desenho e construção digital em tijolo a partir da Obra de Raúl Hestnes Ferreira

• Autor(es): Rui Miguel dos Santos Oliveira
• Data: 2015
• Origem: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Assunto(s): Artes; Arts
• Tipo de Documento: Dissertação de mestrado
• Idioma: Português

Descrição

The brick has been present in construction since the beginning -it may be considered one of the most basic material inconstruction. Its fabrication has evolved alongside the bigtechnological revolutions; however its manual way of layingpersists. Over the last decades the laying methods resorting torobotics have been subject of research and development.The present dissertation aims to study how these technologiescan interfere in the design and brick construction and tries tocomprehend the potential of these technologies in structural andformal ways in brickwork. To accomplish this purpose, thebrickwork of Arch. Raúl Hestnes Ferreira is analysed because ofits expressiveness in constructive details.To understand the potential of these elements, the present workanalyses plans and details of the most significant elements ofHestnes Ferreiraʹs work and has the contribute of the architecthimself. In addition, this study presents experimentations thatpoint out where brick architecture meets robotic and digitalfabrication technologies. This research aims to clarify thepotential of these technologies even with an ordinary material.The work does not intend to condemn manual construction;instead, it demonstrates the possibilities of building beyondsome of its limitations.