ABSTRACT
This text engages in the characteristic of the urban and architectonic space as a provider of emotions. Through Pallasmaa’s, Hertzberger’s, Zumthor’s, Holl’s, and Cullen’s thoughts, among other authors, it demonstrates how architecture and the urban space allow us to obtain an environmental experience through sensations and emotions that become content and meaning for the proposal of new spaces. It presents a didactic exercise of the grounding cycle of the Architecture and Urbanism Course at the Federal University of Paraná - UFPR, which aims to elaborate a model whose spaces and shapes reveal sensations and emotions perceived in the urban space through observation drawings. It discusses the importance of spatial perception, observation drawings, and shape composition contents in the architect and urbanist’s professional qualification process. It emphasizes the use of models in teaching-learning in architecture as a creativity exercise, spatial qualities materialization, and a way of reflecting on ideas. It exemplifies the work process through photos of the students’ works. It reflects in the final considerations about the importance of a didactical exercise in the teaching of Architecture and Urbanism that allows the perception and conceptualization of space as the essence of thinking and making architecture, starting in the first steps of the academic education.
