Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

COR ERGONÓMICA - 2021/2022

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Luís Marques Pinto
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Luís Marques Pinto

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To make students aware of the materiality of organized space, emphasizing color as a determining factor in architecture.
To make students aware of the fact that the use of light, color and texture is decisive to produce a feeling of comfort in a given architectural space.

Specific Aims/Objectives

To make the students aware about the influence of color on the human psychism, capable of affecting the performance of professional activity, the sense of comfort and even the function carried in the space.
To make students aware of the importance of the sense of vision in the apprehension of space and the consequent importance of light, color and texture, as determining factors for the physical and psychological well-being of the users.

Skills to be acquired

Understanding of color as a determining element of the psycho-physiological impact on human beings in organized space.
Understanding of color as a factor resulting from social, cultural and ethnic practices.
Ability to evaluate color as a factor for identification of landscape and organized space.

Teaching Procedures

Stimulating the capacity for reflection and exchange of ideas among students. Some works will be proposed, in order to clarify and deepen the relationship between theoretical principles and practice.

Programme

The relationship between human beings and the environment
Man and architecture - a unified whole
Vision: light and color
Visibility and visual acuity
Theories of Color Perception
Influence of color on the human psychism
The sound and the silence
The ´sound´ of architecture
Smell, taste and touch in architecture
Kinesthesia
The perception of space
Reducing the experience of architecture to colored plans
The effect of texture in architecture
Light in architecture
Color in architectural space

Evaluation Type

The continuous evaluation will be in accordance with the University´s Knowledge Assessment Regulation and will reflect the attendance, punctuality and participation of students, as well as the evaluation grade of two written tests.

Teaching Resources

1. Bibliography (texts, photographs, drawings, etc.); 2. Information worked and synthesized by the teacher, in digital format.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Color; materiality; chromatism; light; texture.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography