Do Mito da Natureza à Paródia da Verdolatria. Arquitectura Esverdeada

Abstract

In the last few decades many attempts to conceptualize Nature have been made, in an effort to face our social and ecological condition. Trying to establish a sense for the concept, many different disciplines have been agreeing with some fonny theories, ending in interventions in the name of the environment, but which pursuit only the profit, the ilusion of social salvation, or the fantasy to reach, through new techniques and technologies, a sustainable Nature, which, in its supposed foundational principles, is only awaiting our salvation. That which seems to be Un Inconvenient Truth reveals itself as a lie, often convenient for those who seek in a false interpretation of the concept the reason to dictate politics and measures which, in general, if they are to be profiting, it is only for those who apply them, inducing society into a polarized situation and into false ideas of sustainability, those of which seem to assure by themselves that the environmental issue is taken serious, and those of which avoid us to ask the vital and sensitive question about the kind of solutions we really wish to achieve, and the best way to achieve them. As a consequence, in a simplistic but ideologically powerfull way, the concept of Green has become to represent sustainability, becoming its incarnation in the Modern World. Buildings fullfilled with technology, solar panels, self-timers or simply vegetation or recicled materials, so called natural ones, have been invading the architectonic field, backed up by concepts which are exogenous to the discipline's field of knowledge, becoming the problem to the very same solution they claim (but apparently do not intend) to be. But the Green also hides a perverse dimension... everything appears to be calm and harmonious but there is something disturbing... rotting... The Green is the common lie, the secret consensus, the perfect crime; everybody knows that it cannot be that good, that it cannot be that easy, but why bother? It sells, and there is enough Green for everybody. In this work, we'll explore the expressions of this Green Architecture, perpetrating its origins, motivations and consequences, in such a way that we can understand what legitimacy can we really, if there is any whatsoever, give it. We will do such without renouncing to the critic attitude which understands the Man/Nature relation as unseparable, heterogeneous and unpredictable, and therefore, above all, a complex political and social moment.