The correct interpretation of a work of architecture – the assessment of its meaning – is fundamental when we face the necessity of intervening on it. The project we present here proposes an empirical test to the hypothesis of «gesture»: the existence of a global coherence of the visual and walking trajectory made as we explore a building [1][2].
[1] ABREU, Pedro Marques de - Palácios da Memória II - Tese de Doutoramento. Lisboa: Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2007 (Documento policopiado).
[2] ABREU, Pedro Marques de - The Vitruvian Crisis or Architecture: the Expected Experience, on Aesthetical Appraisal of Architecture. Proceedings (ed. Kenneth S. Bordens), XX Congress, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Chicago, 19-22 August, 2008 [CD Rom].