Turistas y veraneantes ante el paisajeLa conquista del hábitat residencial turístico

Resum

The definition of ‘tourism’ as the colonization of a territory might be helpful in understanding the phenomenon of tourist habitat and the relations between tourists and holidaymakers and their new conquered territory. From this perspective, it is appropriate that a study is carried out into these changes of the landscape by the research of the most common residential typologies that emerged in the skyline, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century. Consequently, two models of tourist architecture will be analized: the blocks of flats, a direct reinterpretation of the modern movement (1945-1975), and the sets of terraced houses, mainly related to the drift of the postmodern condition (1975-2005). The proposal of this study is to illustrate both cases in the south coast of Valencia (from Alicante to Torrevieja) based on the production of an architect who devoted time and effort to improve solutions and alternatives: this is Antonio Serrano Brú. In this study we‘ll find some clues that will make possible in the future a tourism able to reconcile the contemporary man´s holiday preferences with the conservation of the essence of our natural and antropic habitat