Pensar o chão como atlas

Abstract

The investigation raises debates from the ground as a category: fraying, twisting, fissuring, excavating the field of possibilities that the category seems to open. More than offering a set and definitive landmarks, totalizing answers, it seeks to unravel ideas of ground, objects revealed through the analysis of the territory of a polysemic object of materials - architectures, cities, infrastructures, landscapes - that reinforce its interval place, activator of forces and velocities in the relations between different domains. Thinking about the ground implies considering a complex relief. Commonly, is read as a surface that bodies and objects, configuring itself as a common support for them. Humans and non-humans cohabit this surface, exchanging energy and intensities with each other, but also with the strata of the most varied densities and materials that lie under it. In the thrift stores between these sets of layers — the floor and subsurfaces condensed into a fabric where life resides. The thesis is divided into three sections that configure its plateaus: ground-atlas; ground-design; ground-minor. The theoretical-conceptual debate takes place on the plateaus. They are crossed by essays, where images that, at first temporal sight, cannot be identified stylistically, but that disconnect in their gaps like things that cannot be found. Its architecture is designed through these intersecting layers: there is no introduction, there is no conclusion; everything is under development. For this reason, it accepts expansions and retractions, fragmentations and groupings. There is, in the end, some unfolding, a speculation that involves the impasses that the thesis poses and does not exactly propose to solve.