Design de superfície: a marchetaria em uma visão contemporânea para aplicação em luminárias

Abstract

This study is connected to the specialization course in Surface Design of the Federal University of Santa Maria and covers knowledge of different design faces, being directed to the elaboration of a project that connects the Surface Design to the Product Design. There is a potential to be explored in the execution projects supported by the resources that these areas of design enable, the realization of this project contemplates research and theoretical foundations focusing on different contents that relate to each other, according to the interdisciplinary nature of the scope. Among the many practical applications of Surface Design in products, it was decided to invest in the technique of marquetry allied to the use of metal as a coating applied to contemporary lamps, since both are characterized by the versatility, making feasible this proposal. The methodology to carry out and guide the creative development is constituted through 4 phases with the support of tools that help the project in a specific way and corresponding to the observed needs. The phases are divided into: Analysis of Problem, Configuration and Concept, Generation of Alternatives and Evaluation, and Realization of Problem Solution. From this design plane, where the focus on the surface of the object is the most significant question, there is the objective of investigating possibilities that involve the technical process of the marquetry in a contemporary vision as a basis in the creation of compositions and in the design of differentiated lamps. The references for the development of the drawings for the compositions dedicated to the surface of the objects of illumination are derived from visual elements of nature in union with conceptual features of fractal geometry. In the materialization of this collection, composed of 6 design options, it was decided to use the contrasting mixture of materials (natural wood and metal) and laser cutting to facilitate and validate the technology in the production process, according to the updating of the technique in contemporaneity, which manifests itself as purpose. The approach of this study collaborates with the reception of new methods to be used in the development of products that explore the segment of Surface Design, assigning values in their results to increase knowledge and ideas to be validated and dominated in the area.