DANCING MAN. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
CONCEPT PROGRAM x EVENT
According to Farina (2009, p.6), Tschumi (1994, p.483) defines an architectural program as “(...) a list of utilitarian requirements, [which] indicates their relations of actions, but suggests neither the combination nor the proportion between them”. At the same time, the theory is that the space of the event is more than the space of the program, since it allows for the randomness of movement and presence. The event itself is the spontaneous and inconstant activities that take place in the consolidated space, placing the mediation between the processes involved in design thinking and the reality of the space in use as the main issue of the project.
For Tschumi (1998, p.4) architecture can be defined as “the pleasurable and sometimes violent confrontation between spaces and activities”. In other words, activities, also understood as possibilities for events, are the decisive agents for the conception of space in architecture. The event does not exclude the pressures of the program, but rather questions the real nature of the notation of project, place and context (FARINA, 2009).
The author also reiterates that, following Tschumi's theory, movements such as walking, running or dancing are an intrusion of events into architectural spaces, and it is through the speculation of these repetitive activities that a program is established for that particular space. In this way, activities acquire meaning from their appropriation by space. The same author states that it is possible to think of architecture in the opposite way, composed only of spaces in process. In other words, architecture would be made up of spaces that are not determined by their uses. This theory means that architecture is only made up of in-between, residual and interstitial spaces.
MAN LYING DOWN. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
APPLYING THE CONCEPT IN THE PAULISTA AVENUE
Based on these concepts, it is possible to say that Paulista Avenue is a space that has a program, since the rolling lanes are laid out for the circulation of cars; the pedestrian lanes and sidewalks, in turn, are laid out to allow the coming and going of passers-by; and the traffic lights to organize traffic and prevent accidents, etc. However, with the publication of Mayor Fernando Haddad's decree mobilizing the opening of Paulista Avenue on Sundays and holidays to promote a new leisure space for the city, the avenue's program has been completely transformed. Those designated for the circulation of cars and motorcycles, for example, are now full of people using the space with total liberality.
CLOTHING STREET MARKET. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
MASSAGE. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
STREET MARKET. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
MASP STAIRCASE. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
CARICATURE DRAWING. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
APPLYING THE CONCEPT IN THE INTERVENTION PROJECT
The “Activation of Voids” project brings the essence of the avenue's dynamics into its volume, allowing for numerous spontaneous activities in its space. There are areas with a program, that is, with the expectation that certain activities will be carried out in that delimited space according to the customs and cultures of today. There is also an empty space. An emptiness full of possibilities.
SIMULATION WITH VIRTUALITY GLASSES. SOURCE: AUTHOR, 2023.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FARINA, Miguel. PROGRAMA & EVENTO: ou o evento do programa, uma questão de conceituação. Porto Alegre:
[s.n.], 2009. 12 p. Disponível em: https://www.academia.edu/4128676/Programa_and_Evento_em_Tschumi.
Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023.
[s.n.], 2009. 12 p. Disponível em: https://www.academia.edu/4128676/Programa_and_Evento_em_Tschumi.
Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023.
TSCHUMI, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996.
TSCHUMI, Bernard. Temas extraídos de los Manhantan Transcripts. In: Hereu, Pere, Josep Maria Montaner, and Jordi Oliveras. Textos de Arquitectura de La Modernidad (Spanish Edition). Madrid: Nerea, 1994.
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