Abstract

This text highlights the designer's ability to find satisfactory hypotheses as Nigel Cross’ statement is applied to the skin of buildings in the city of the twenty-first century. The text supports the notion of 'équipement' as ‘pattern language’ in the Western context equipment scenarios and in the period immediately following the Second World War, based on Michel Foucault's archaeological reasoning method. The manuscript revisits René Descartes’ reasoning to understand his influence on projectual method and is based on the interpretation of the concept of 'équipement' (Le Corbusier, 1923) as 'pattern language' (Christopher Alexander, 1963). To support this idea, we perform a comparative study on the use of methodology by Le Corbusier, Archigram and Archizoom. As a field, design proposed a staged implementation of the project on the city as a whole, taking into account change and the dynamics of time. This research also intends to demonstrate that when correlated to the factors characterizing the contemporary metropolis, the project hypotheses enhance the efficiency and sustainability of the interface with the user. We are, therefore, focused on studying the construction of scenarios as carriers of meaning that call upon users decoding skills.