[ Alejandro Carrillo R. ]
Much depends on the type of project, but the architect designed space designed primarily on two factors: functionality and aesthetics. This followed after factors such as economic or whims. From this, the aesthetic has been taken to the level of what is 'can do', thus referring to a human scale, more like what our eyes from person to person, and given this premise, is that designer focuses on creating facades and interior spaces visually appealing, clean, in order, containing a message that only humans can perceive. However, realistically, today we are not living with a purely human level, since for decades, life 'moves by car. " Mobility which enabled them to humans, and the scale of cities that no longer produces think our scale, and architecture for nothing is the exception, and rise buildings now left far behind the Tower of Babel .
Considering this situation is that we can not let ourselves be carried away by what we see (on a human scale), since that's not a real reference point to the magnitude of world Today (clarify, it's all about being human, but the global scale and does not belong). And this is where, ceasing to be an antagonist, it appears the roof deck, the fifth façade as the new protagonist.
is not new topic, the fifth facade is linked by many to sustainability, while designing a facade on the roof does not necessarily put seedlings or green roofs or solar panels and solar heaters. What is certain is that what our eyes can see, makes us reflect upon the urban landscape we've created, which in large cities or expansion is developing into something awful, repetitive, and even old ( in the sense that gets old fast.) Therefore, the famous fifth facade no longer plays a role only for sustainability, but the expectations that it should have included the repair and upgrade the depressing urban face has been created.
Have not the time to put clothes lines and water tanks on roofs, as well as look at all the red splendor of waterproofing?, Really do not know, since the needs and scope of persons never be questioned for an architect. What I do know is that they are a field of action, and no longer live in times where human consciousness comes only to its scale, but to a larger. The roof, the roof should no longer be just the character of markets and industrial buildings, but every project, since it is always the cover which gives a space character has the floor. Addressing this problem, if you can call it, may not be easy, but significant problems, simple solutions. The goal is one: to create architecture. Involved only more expensive, added to the volume.
Picture: taken from Flickr. Photo owned by Diego Lopez, All rights reserved. 2008.
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