Lectura e ideación de la escala y 'escalaje' en arquitectura : inteligencia visual que adquiere identidad en la Geografía
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2007
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E.T.S. Arquitectura (UPM)
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According to scientific findings of other sciences, scale is shown to be the most evolutionary, complex and
unavoidable state of architectural thinking, refuting the efforts of some architects to make the issue of scale
an obsolete matter. This approach complements contributions made by French architecturology to scaling
conception, continuing an interrupted line of research developed from an existential focus in ETSAM-UPM
since the late 60’s. Scale is understood as a sub personal and collective thinking activity, which acts on the
conscience by creating a dynamic epiphenomenon when we face the architectural phenomenon in the real
and imaginative realm; and by unifying all elements as a sized totality anchored to the surrounding. It is
proved to be a necessity of human thinking of space; thus makes it indistinguishable from the Qualia of
architecture which cannot exist without it. A kind of individual/social psychism of dimensional desire founded
on the sensefull comprehension of the own geographical space, that finely induces ‘scaling’: a manifestative
and creative way of thinking, susceptible of being operated as a peculiar open system -’scalage’, a sort of
language, but being at the same time ‘system’ and ‘content’-. Revealing a specific heuristical way, scale
interprets and narrates the tale of the local affection towards the own natural space, unchaining a tautological
recursivity of ‘perverse and non sought effects’ that finally models and condenses local notions of dimensions,
integrating architecture to the identity processes. It is proved also, that this local dimensional meaning
acquires power in the immense spaces of American territory, succeeding in prevailing over prescriptions of
the most dogmatic styles adopted, showing scale to be the main factor of adaptation, even in the work of
the more personal and outstanding architects. The condensation of meaning attempted by buildings meant
to be symbolic at a national representative level in three different countries of Ibero America, commissioned
each one to the most renown architects at the Rationalist Modern Movement period, made it possible to
prove the existence of a local way operating spatial intelligence in the reading and production of scale.
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