Complexity, genericity, and specificity in buildings: Descriptive models and the notion of spatial mediation

• Autor(a) principal: Nóbrega, Lívia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Amorim, Luiz, Koch, Daniel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• DOI: 10.47235/rmu.v10i2.258
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.47235/rmu.v10i2.258
• topic: Bienal de São Paulo; edifícios complexos; função genérica; mediação espacial; modelos configuracionais; Bienal de São Paulo; complex building; generic function; spatial mediation; configurational model

This paper discusses the interaction between ephemeral and perennial spatial layouts that, although observable in different building types, are particularly evident in exhibition spaces, and proposes three descriptive models – complex, generic, and specific – capable of capturing and relating their maximum, minimum, and intermediate possibilities of performance of the generic functions of occupation and movement. To this end, it selects the Bienal de São Paulo as an empirical object, an expression that designates a set of exhibitions and a building, whose spatial configuration is simultaneously described as complex and generic, and which since 1957 has been reconfigured every two years to host the event – composed of exhibitions of modern and contemporary art of great specificity. The analysis of nine cases of layouts of Bienais exhibitions and the layout of their building in the corresponding year allowed the elaboration and testing of such models and synthesizing the results through scales that relate the three systems and their distribution sequences. These models and sequences characterize the spatial mediation property of architecture (Nóbrega, 2022) and may support the description and analysis of the interaction between different layouts and the performance of the generic functions in buildings of other types and uses.