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                              Limits, 
                            boundaries and territories marked the land and the 
                            language of our ancestors. The natural lines and 
                            walls of our urban and agricultural landscape create 
                            a story that remains as a transcript of its 
                            transformation. As our modern communication tools 
                            render our historical understanding of 
                            territoriality as obsolete, a more evanescent 
                            representation of space emerges: fields, waves and 
                            zones.  
                              
                            The magical web of 
                            the Internet is cast, invisibly grouping people and 
                            information at a distance. Unseen connections allow 
                            for the navigation of virtual architectural spaces- 
                            spaces of information and communication. The more 
                            distance our tools conquer, the more radically our 
                            perception of limits evolves, creating new sets of 
                            spatial associations between home and work, between 
                            work and play.  
                            The artifacts of 
                            our communication become smaller to take refuge in 
                            our intimacy. Personalised to our moves and gestures, 
                            they become magic in their capacity to activate 
                            people and objects at farther distances. These 
                            Para-Sites of our relations and actions demand a 
                            re-evaluation of our rapport to the sensible world. 
                            Thus, a double site 
                            condition is created composed of the immediate, 
                            local context (the culture, the land and its 
                            vernacular architecture), and the global context (the 
                            businesses and nomadic professionals who use their 
                            modem extension as a mobile node of their 
                            far-reaching network). Both the local and the global 
                            must be addressed. Our architectural projects and 
                            proposals address this challenge by establishing a 
                            series of principles with which to fold together the 
                            global dimension of our economy and the local 
                            richness offered within the variegated contexts of 
                            the European urban and rural condition.   |