Spaciologistic treaties
1.
Architecture is the creator of humanised spaces.
1.1.
To humanise space you have to associate it with a human action.
1.2.
A space with action is a space with use and meaning.
1.3.
A place is a space with use and meaning.
1.4.
Architecture formates places fit for a human action but also
explaining to you that they are fit for it.
2.
A place corresponds to one or many human actions.
3.
Architecture is an art and as an art it has content and form.
3.1.
The content is the use of a place, the form is the way it
communicates it to you.
3.2.
The structure of urban spaces through the ages,
the concept of the arrangement of places in all civilisations
is the basic document of human actions,
a cast of the order of their life
a unique trace of their cultural values.
4.
All the places make the Architectural Tissue.
Actions and Order
5.
Actions fall to an order according to the economic, social,
political and technological status
which a society at a moment is made up.
5.1.
Actions are associated with each other disintegrated,
are in conflict, they are dependent or irrelevant
they are of the same kind but of different intensity.
5.2.
Thus actions form polarised orders; elective affinities,
hierarchical successions,
caused effect successions.
5.3.
The relations between actions are the forces created between them.
5.4.
The architectural tissue has to wrap around this order of actions,
has to be the mold where actions are going to flow,
forming them and formated by them.
5.5.
Any dissent leads to confusion and distraction.
Gate and Wall
6.
All actions fall between presence and absence
in space and time.
6.1.
Actions are bifocal they always create a topological reality
of an interior and an exterior.
6.2.
Actions are related and attached between them
they always
create a point
of hand shaking.
6.3.
The totality of human places is an interlocking series of ins and
outs and
inbetween transitions.
6.3.1.
Let us call the place where actions stop:
Wall and
let us call the inbetween transition where actions meet, overlap
filtered, transformed or welcomed;
Gate.
6.5.
Space within a topological unit is continuous
Space between an interior and an exterior or
two interiors
is discontinuous.
6.5.1.
Thus the relation between actions
formates space in a netting of continuous or discontinuous units.
6.6.
Style is the qualitative modification of the relation of a place
to another place
in continuity or discontinuity.
6.7.
In order to humanise space magnitude must have meaning.
6.8.
All architecture is created through the principle of
gate and wall
from the realm of the bedroom to the chaos of a public square.
7.
To create order in human life is
an Act of Love.
Compound Places
8.
The action of a place is
connected with that of
another place; they form
a chain of continuity of places according to the ellective
affinities of their actions.
8.1.
This group of places makes a compound place
of higher order in terms of containment.
8.2.
Those compound places
also make a topological statement- of an inside and an outside.
8.3.
Compound places are discontinuous to their outside, (when the
actions they include create opposed forces with the outside),
and continuous at the gates where they create points of hand
shaking.
8.4.
Thus they are connected
with other compound places forming more complex and
of a higher order, of containment, units.
9.
There are actions which appear in a place of higher order
and not in places of a lower order, that follow.
9.1.
Places according to the degree of penetration or exclusion
of an action
form
a hierarchical order.
10.
Actions form levels
10.1.
They are arranged according
to what they are, the same way they were arranged according to where
they are.
10.2.
The first description was
of their topological distribution this is now a description
of their systematic spread.
11.
Each system of actions is a human institution.
12.
We can imagine each system working in a certain net-level.
12.1.
A net-level consists
of a topological net of an action.
13.
The net-levels of actions
are topologically
« universal homogenious
»,
« general discountinuous
»
« topical
».
13.1.
Actions that are
« universal homogenious
»
can occur practically anywhere without any important quantitative of
qualitative changes within their net-level.
13.2.
The arrangement of
« general continuous» actions can
occur anywhere
but they follow an ordering of quantitative changes.
13.2.1.
The arrangement within
a general discontinuous system is hierarchical
13.2.2.
When the changes are quantitative the net-level is fragmented into
stem zones where
a sub-system is plugged into another sub-system.
13.2.2.1.
Topologically the points where the sub systems are plugged must be
the gates.
13.3.
Topical net levels are
very limited they cover exceptional actions of
special
events.
14.
When a net-level (micro-system) is connected
with another net-level
they form a compound system ( macro-system)
14.1.
The properties of a compound system
are different from the properties of the sum of the previous systems
together.
15.
The created, with concatenation net-levels correspond to new human
institutions.
16.
Complex human institutions can be analysed to two or more
net-levels.
17.
The systems of actions are neither static nor independent.
17.1.
We tend to make our actions
fall into complete and consistent systems.
but actually we face the dilemma of choosing between
either their completeness or their consistency.
17.22
The systems of actions tend
to combine with other systems of actions at the point
of their inconsistency or incompleteness
in order to equilibrate.
17.3.
The over-imposed net-levels of the systems are mutually influenced
and transformed
from their first canonical order.
17.4.
Thus actions can occur also outside the strict
hierarchical order as syncopations and reversions.
17.5.
The result of this deformation being not confusion and trouble but
stimulation of vitality
and psychological tension.
18.
Human institutions are
subjects to constant change as a metabolised organism is.
18.1.
Human institutions are identifiable but not definable.
19.
Every architectural project
must be considered as a part of the architectural tissue and in
relation to it.
19.1.
It is a sum of places complete and open to change
consistent and ambiguous
hierarchical and syncopatic
polarised and mixed where
neither the inside nor the outside
dictate its form but
as in a living organism both:
the Wall and the Gate being
bilateral statements of
an inside outside
interaction of actions.
20.
Through particularisation
complexity,
discontinuity,
unity,
clarity,
wholeness,
evolve.