Paisagem (d)e periferias. Território (d)e arquitecturas

Abstract

This dissertaton expresses the desire to build a scafolding, a set of structures abstract through which I associate the new observed realites on the territory superimposed on the old. In wishes to clarify this mythological ancient and ancestral "rural" space, part of a contnuous thread from the modern man to the primitve. Beyond pen and paper I observe on site something that didn't conform, that "wasn't rural", "wasn't ancient", that didn't make this essental connecton between man and space. His deeply disturbed architecture did not show itself within "the canons" predicted by an architecture student. Within the architecture and the territory there was a "vacuum", distnct and opposed to the comforts of the "located men", those whom belonged to "places". Here in limbo we observe a space "between-worlds" on the threshold of the known. In order to approach the territory, it was necessary to characterize a set of "man-landscape" relatonships. Startng from the percepton of man towards the natural, which he organized since the immemorial tmes of prehistory; of the nomadic men, hunter-gatherers, who organized themselves in reference to the catalogue of forms arranged in the natural landscape. Beyond fnding the defnitons of a "proto-space", "proto-territory", I throughout the work propose the reading of the current space referencing to these primitve readings. Wishing to expose this "reading" contnuity as something tangible, which overcomes the changes introduced by the new ways of living. Faced with the disconnecton between "landscape", "architecture" and "man", I resort to the observaton method as a connecton beyond tme; a traveller's structure, orderly choreographed in the territory. The space is defned lightly by the past and present routes: from architects, anthropologists, engineers to those "located men" who through "singing" defne the "characters" within a space narratve; to my own trail through which I create a platorm, a case-study.