Arquitectura para un “Prometeo precavido”

  1. Mesa del Castillo Clavel, Miguel 1
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

Journal:
En blanco: revista de arquitectura

ISSN: 1888-5616

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 15

Issue: 34

Pages: 108-117

Type: Article

DOI: 10.4995/EB.2023.19500 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The loss of ecosystems and landscapes is a common concern that is present in many areas of our lives; we find it in the electoral programmes of political parties, in public and private institutions, in the media or in our informal conversations. We are concerned about climate, environmental conservation, biodiversity, and the consequences of the voracious exploitation of our economy. Against this background, in which the social, the ecosystemic and the technological are no longer presented as independent spheres, we should ask ourselves whether it is appropriate for architecture to remain a discipline that intervenes as an instrument for the correction of the problems of a world of limited resources, without questioning the systemic condition of those problems, or a restart from scratch, which would leave behind a past of ecological, social or economic conflict. Architecture is intertwined with nature; the relationship between them is not one of figure and background, but one of assemblage. Nature, on the other hand, cannot be understood as a harmonious totality enclosed within itself and separated from the processes in which it is involved[1], or from the conflicts, the technologies and the policies it encompasses.[2] The Rambla Climate-House, the project for a single-family house in Molina de Segura (Murcia) by the Office for Political Innovation/Andrés Jaque with Miguel Mesa, puts into practice a number of arguments already present in previous works and research by Andrés Jaque's office on political ecology and the conflictive relations between nature and architecture.[3] The project is an experiment in committed domesticity carried out in a suburban dwelling which, through a system of climate sensing and activation, cares for what could be recognised as a garden of ethical obligations. The Rambla Climate-House is an architecture that promotes a dissident attitude by citizens towards the loss of our landscapes, which calls for collective responsibilities in the restoration of our environments and enables the possibility of coexistence with other species. [1] Miguel Mesa del Castillo and Enrique Nieto, Post-Arcadia. ¿Qué arte para qué naturaleza? (Murcia: Cendeac, 2020). [2] Bruno Latour, Políticas de la naturaleza: por una democracia de las ciencias (Barcelona: RBA, 2013). [3] Andrés Jaque's critical work in the field of studies on the politics of nature and architecture is extensive and can be found in many of his writings collected in several books, including: Andrés Jaque, Mies y la gata niebla: Ensayos sobre arquitectura y cosmopolítica (Barcelona: Puente editores, 2019). Andres Jaque, Superpowers of Scale (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). Jaque, Andrés, Políticas transmateriales (Madrid: Ministerio Educación y Cultura, 2017).These issues are dealt with in numerous projects from the Office for Political Innovation such as: Cosmo MoMA Ps1 (2015), Reggio School (2022), Being Silica (2021), Skin-Gardens. Eco-Transparent jewelry for politically cared skins (2007), amongst many others.

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