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infra(structural)width
Code PAC067
Depending on the sea
water thrust, weather conditions and a certain degree of susceptibility
to unexpected changes, a continental formation would remain 'suspended'
during a four to seven month period, just like an island in the middle
of the water.
As from this moment, a swampy and changeable surface introduces itself
in 'terra firma'. The in [or near to] presence of fresh water outlets
and the rain or summer seasons will enrich the site's landscape.
Two programmatic actions take place at this amphibious landscape, as a
manipulation mechanism, shaping up an 'artificiated nature" and an
'operative landscape".
Technical Width refers to the arrangement of a given 'vector's' position
and direction, to 'lines of tension disposed as discontinuous series in
the landscape, configuring a basic operative order'
A 'technology' which at the time of entering in contact with changeable
surfaces, result in a programmatic topography. More than building isolated
objects, these technical widths position the houses on the ground, thus
integrating the habitat and the landscape.
An open system towards
a diverse, variable and heterogeneous landscape configuration.
Tranching and folding are used to form infrastructure 'widths' along the
ground, as a linking system of private and semi-private amphibious spaces.
These widths ought to be taken as horizon landmarks, tridimensional ground
illustrations; as connecting outlines, depths among empty spaces, mounds
and depressions. landscape 'streets'.
Circulation is organised through displacing routes-distances travelled.
Short and more comfortable roads for residents
'in-scape' plus public amphibian ways made up of routes and open roads,
itineraries going trough the gardens and natural distortions ... oaks
on top of the sea and wind sounds under the bedrooms.
The idea of full control is replaced by the idea of auto- or 'self regulation'
is not a matter of conditioning the landscape but rather of landscaping
the conditions
The classical concept
of "coexistence" (shared behavior), is gradually substituted
by that of "cohabitation" (spatial contract of relationship).2
This landscape
is crossed by infrastructural dikes and ditches, whose empty spaces between
one and other house a 'new' topography which allows for controllable and
civilized 'amphibian exteriors', floating gardens, artificial planting,
terraces and water accesses, ponds, dunes and natural pools.
Volumes suspended in the air-water-earth will fill this new landscape,
where the houses will be connected-anchored, with an infrastructural width
attained through an equipped wall, which holds the bathrooms and the kitchen.
All other components, social activity and bedroom spaces will be affixed
to the wall, aleatorily, following the land outline, while looking for
given view or a better sun and wind position.
A light outside covering (metal sheets, glass, polycarbonates as a thermic
facade) which will mark the limits between outside and inside, and rather
than making up an exterior volume will shape up the empty space (double
height, voids) between the house components; the inside configuration
of the dwellings will be of spaces 'floating' within an empty space.
Open garden, kitchen-diner, bedrooms and utility space compose each unit.
It also has a private garden on the roof as well as at ground.
The facade has a 'double layered' enclosure and the dwelling components
incorporate mass produced industrial devices, not meant as a repetition
of an element but rather as a construction principle, a 'tactical' prefabrication.
In addition to low costs, this solution will increase the precision, efficiency,
versatility and speed, plus reutilization (process reversibility] as a
'soft colonisation' principle, movement and displacement notions, ecology
friendly process, dry (mechanical) assembly and disassembly tactics.
A densification over
time (...) 'planting' starts simultaneously with the dissemble, as a "time
schedule landscaping".3
Different infrastructural
lines connected to the same area, conforming a denser texture, will then
be capable of producing denser activities and community widths, with some
'urban level' services. Operative topographies, which organise and house
commercial, office, manufacturing, recycling and leisure activities areas,
along with parking and storage zone
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