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Author
Juanjo López de la Cruz
Epilogue
Ángel Martínez García-Posada
Editors
Recolectores Urbanos
ISBN
978-84-940196-2-3
Year
2012
Pages
136
Link to publisher
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The architecture project condenses into a fixed form a cloud of references, clues, notes, ideas, and impressions gathered over time. All together, they make up a collection of invisible supports that, like the hidden mass sustaining the tip of the iceberg, support the project. This book portrays one of those clouds, the one that emerged during the development of a series of projects and research around the discovery and alteration of our deteriorating world.
Perhaps without degradation, memory would not exist; the processes of wear and decay are part of our culture, so the reuse of what has already been used can be a method of transmitting it. By considering our remnants, all options once again present themselves to a new perspective, capable of revealing latent lives in discarded objects and spaces. The architecture project thus becomes a tool to rethink everything around us, embracing deterioration as part of the life cycle but not as its end—rather, as an intermediate moment from which to explore new paths through the metamorphosis of forgotten architectures and objects.
This text navigates between the inevitable acceptance of degradation and the opportunity it presents, dealing largely with the alteration of the meaning of things, the assimilation of our broken pieces, the recovery of lost opportunities, and the occupation of unsuspected places.
What began as research into recycling and its cultural connotations ultimately takes on its architectural nature to tell stories about the meaning, matter, time, and space of our world—a world that is worn and ever-changing, indeed.
