Reactivation strategies

Intervening the city

The thought that development always implies growth is a monumental error. George Steiner called ‘casino culture’ to that one that seeks maximum impact and immediate obsolescence, encouraging consumption. Architecture cannot follow this principle and consider new as optimal: build and demolish, build and demolish.

As Hans Hacke said in his manifesto, to do something capable to evolve according to the environment, that is not stable. This allows to reuse, transform, and bring back to life structures that were already lifeless.

Do something indeterminate, that always has a different air, a form that cannot be preconceived. Do something that cannot work if it is not in relation to the environment, something sensitive to light and changes in temperature, subject to air currents, which promotes social cohesion and the political capacity of space. Do Thing ‘live’.