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…Where to Place the Voids

Designing the Context: Morphological and Cultural Issues

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Abstract

This chapter offers multiple keys for unveiling, representing and constructing the context, figured out in between architectural and landscape design. Context becomes a multi-scalar Latent Environment that is made visible -and transformed- with Diagrams and Cartographies. Context, understood with reference to time as and interactive and living organism, drives us to design architectural successions of Landscape Events.

“The art of structure is how and where to place the voids.

If you think about the void, instead of working

with solids elements, the truth emerges”

(McCleary, Iglesias, 1997).

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Notes

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    Interpretation of different notions of Context and Environment from “Dictionary of Spanish Real Academy”.

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    Definition of Diagram in Dictionary of Spanish Real Academy.

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    Interpretation of different notions of Cartography from Dictionary of Spanish Real Academy.

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  1. TallerDe2 – Office for Architectural and Urban Innovation, Avda, Valladolid 17, 28008, Madrid, Spain

    Arantza Ozaeta Cortazar & Álvaro Martin Fidalgo

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    Luigi Spinelli

  3. Department ABC, Politecnico di Milano, 20133, Italy

    Carol Monticelli

  4. Department of DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Paolo Pedrali

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Ozaeta Cortazar, A., Martin Fidalgo, Á. (2016). …Where to Place the Voids. In: Zanelli, A., Spinelli, L., Monticelli, C., Pedrali, P. (eds) Lightweight Landscape. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21665-2_8

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