Form, space, light and color: creative variables driving language and architectural project

Abstract

Introduction: In the seventies, consolidated the architectural movements of the 20th century, experts such as Fernando Chueca indicated the need to strengthen an architectural language contributing to ancestral one —but current— generated in the classical ages. In this way, considering the harmony between architecture and the language that Charles Jencks associated to the postmodern movement. This research proposes a review of different graphic principles that contribute to the development of the project, pondering the architectural grammar formulated. Methodology: It proposes an analysis of the syntax and semantics, transcribed as morphology and narrative, introducing into the architectural project sequence by creative variables as form, space and —unified— light and its consequence, the color. Results: This methodology offers to the user´s experience the lineal and technological patterns developed by Foster, the monumental vertical spaces designed by Piano or the chromatic sensations of Ito's work. Discussions: The procedural dialogue promoted by these creative variables contribute to the development of the architectural paradigm. Conclusions: Architectural creation finds in its grammar, established as syntagms or creative variables, an experimental catalyst that connects the construction process with the perception of architectural work that it is transferred to the observer.