Pequeñas certezas para cambios constantes / Small certainties for constant changes Ramon J. Fermin • Dayana Melendez
10 Summary The proposal consists of exploration and experimentation of matter and structure as living space in the construction of a landscape as atmospheres - SMALL CERTAINS -, as the inherent aspects of an artifact capable of conceptually and physically sustaining the objects, in response to manifestation, of constant changes, present in society; an approach that challenges the aspects of the habitable space and the demands that the CONTEMPORARY CONDITION, characterized by its instability. An approach with a transversal knowledge between the conceptual interpretation of the contemporary condition and the construction exploring and experiencing the tectonics of the material. Understand the scope of materiality in terms of its possibilities as a support structure and the limits as a configurator of a space such as landscape, atmosphere and place. Variables that are considered as the scope of the artifact with which to operate. The understood the artifact, like construction - matter, structure and landscape - and the events that happen in it - living - and in this approach from the contemporary condition; artifact as construction and human activities as a manifestation of life. This construction understood as the built space - a framework -, which have their own demands and conditions (matter) that allow the narrative of events and experience to unfold. The process aims to manifest what we have called 3 states: Liquid, solid and gaseous. The contemporary condition (liquid state) is taken - it is assumed -, matter and structure (solid state) is explored - it is experienced - and the landscape (gaseous state) is discovered - it manifests itself. Three complementary states that channel this approach to artifact. Constant changes / Liquid state: The first state is presented and reflected conceptually on the contemporary condition, it is understood from philosophy, sociology and the derivation that physics has had, as regards its repercussion on the ways of living, which is defined as unstable, where ephemeral, transitory and spontaneous, among others, take relevance, in addition to a change in the notion of time and space with respect to the conception of modernity, produced by new technologies and the new relationships that are manifested in human activities . Small certainties (material and structure)/Solid state: In the second state - technical - it consists of selecting a material, to understand its properties, its possibility as a structural and assembly system. Technical level consisting of specific knowledge of the subject as an element to carry out both constructive and spatial research. The emphasis on construction is taken as a strategy for the creative process, since an idea is not presented as a foreshadowing of a form, but unexpected results are found and discovered by the process of configuring the artifact itself from the spear and limitations of matter, elements and parts. Landscape(atmospheres)/ Gaseous state: The third state consists of the encounter of the unpredictable. A process where it is not foreshadowed, but is discovered, appears and manifests itself, product of the exploration of matter and structure. The landscape, as a place defined as experiences of atmospheres and events, is interpreted as gaseous, as opposed to the generic and indefinite space, which is “solid”. Here, the duality between space and place has been interpreted as materialization of air.
