LIVRO DE OBRA

LIVRO DE OBRA: O AMOR COMO CONSTRUÇÃO ARQUITETÓNICA EXPLORES THE IDEA OF LOVE AS A BUILT STRUCTURE — ONE SHAPED BY FOUNDATIONS, DECISIONS, MAINTENANCE, AND EVENTUAL COLLAPSE. DEVELOPED AS PART OF A UNIVERSITY PROJECT, THE PUBLICATION DRAWS A PARALLEL BETWEEN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND ARCHITECTURAL PROCESSES, EXAMINING HOW EMOTIONAL BONDS ARE CONSTRUCTED, INHABITED, REPAIRED, AND SOMETIMES ABANDONED. TAKING THE FORM OF A CONSTRUCTION LOGBOOK, THE PROJECT TRANSLATES EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES INTO ARCHITECTURAL STAGES, FROM SITE SURVEYING AND IDEALISATION TO STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT, CONFRONTATION, FRAGILITY, AND RUIN. THROUGH THIS METAPHOR, RELATIONSHIPS ARE UNDERSTOOD AS SYSTEMS WHOSE STABILITY DEPENDS NOT ONLY ON WHAT IS VISIBLE, BUT ALSO ON THE HIDDEN FOUNDATIONS THAT SUPPORT THEM. THE NOTION OF “(RE)SOLUTION” BECOMES CENTRAL TO THE NARRATIVE, REFERRING BOTH TO REPEATED ATTEMPTS AT REPAIR AND TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF AN INEVITABLE ENDING. COMBINING POETRY, LITERARY EXCERPTS, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND EDITORIAL EXPERIMENTATION, THE PUBLICATION FUNCTIONS AS BOTH A DOCUMENT AND A REFLECTION ON THE EMOTIONAL ARCHITECTURES WE CREATE THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES. THE FINAL OUTCOME EXTENDS BEYOND THE BOOK FORMAT THROUGH THE INCLUSION OF AN ARCHITECTURAL BLUEPRINT PRESENTED IN A DRAFTING TUBE, REINFORCING THE PROJECT'S EXPLORATION OF LOVE AS A SPACE CONTINUOUSLY DESIGNED, ALTERED, AND REDEFINED OVER TIME.