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. |