Desviaciones infinitesimales. La intervención invisible del Turó de la Rovira

Abstract

Could we read architectural spaces in a synaesthetic way? With names or senses different from the expected ones? What would happen? Reading spaces from this perspective has to do, both, with questioning the need of names and forgetting the sense of them as hermetic containers. Against the ‘exaggerated’ or ‘absolute’ nominalism that relates uniquely names and objects, spaces and uses –certain stimulus with certain senses–, it emerges an understanding of architecture where spaces and places can be defined in a more indeterminate, unexpected and changing way. The ‘preservation of Turo de la Rovira’s peaks’ in Barcelona, by Jansana-Villa-de Paauw and AAUP architecture studios, represents an interesting case of this procedure that deals with infinitesimal deviations followed by huge results.