O Fenómeno da Imagem Formada pela Luz Natural. A Estenopeia na Arquitectura

• Autor(a) principal: Vítor Manuel de Moura Magalhães
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/156671
• topic: Artes; Arts

Material lives from light. You are light, the mountains are light, the trees are light, athmosphere is light. All materials are light. Louis Khan In architecture, wherever there is light, there is stenopeic phenomenon. This dissertation presents research that aims to deepen the knowledge on the role of light in architecture. Light has always raised questions that extend from its origins and nature till its effects in architecture. From the start, we learn that architecture does not exist without light, so we can say that light is a material that is required for the development of Architecture. It is, without doubts, an element that allows us to enjoy the characteristics of the architectural spaces and, most possibly, the means that offers the greatest social and spiritual value to the space, because it generates emotions and intensifies the poetic impact of a project and building. However, light does not exclusively belong to architecture, first of all it belongs to humanity for it creates life, well-being, ambiences, sensations and is the origin off endless phenomena. Stenopeic, one of those phenomena, that is as old as light itself and origins images, both steady and in motion ones, has place in architecture whenever the sun raises and produces images that, on their turn, produce architecture. The main focus of research is the light effects that stenopeic phenomena may produce in architecture, as a means of representation and how the forms of space are conceived or perceived, as well as the relations that the human being establishes with them. So, our study follows mainly two ways, one of them is architectural design - studying the processes of configuration and design of space through the effects of light, and the other, is the light itself and its relevance through the observation of effects regarding well-being and dwelling. The research includes studies about light and its interconnection in the history of architecture - how architects worked it - and experimental studies through a construction of what we called Laboratory Cube, dedicated to deeper observations of light relation and architecture by changes of light sources and shapes of incidence in spaces that allow us to give significative impact to the function of lightning, that include the stenopeic vision and apparatus, having in sight to serve architecture, both in design and built space.