Estação Férrea de Santa Maria e ladrilho hidráulico como referencial na criação de estampas para bases cimentícias

Abstract

The present study intends to interpret, under the print design optics, the symbols that directly reach the conceptualization and the definition of paradigms in the material and incorporeal culture. The Railway Station of Santa Maria, cultural patrimony of the city, is the referential thematic on this work. Such elements will represent the base to the research of forms, symbols, meanings and the posterior process of print creation and its application on the cement tile used on covering walls. In this way, based on this theme and data-collecting, practical experiments were realized on the confection of base-surface, searching for magnifying application possibilities of the print on the pieces. The print on the conventional cement tile has been defined in a flat and white base. As a result of the research, six groups of twelve units were elaborated, each one with twelve units in specific patterns for each drawing composing different possibilities of arrangements. The prints collection created gives evidence to the cement tile language, as an alternative for walls covering in a contemporary proposal, conected with current and technological alternatives tendencies available in this section, in derived visual solutions of the local culture.