From Global to Local: spontaneous consciousness and artisanal attitude in the self-built city in Latin America - San Martin de las Flores-Mexico’s self-built fabric. A perspective and tools for contemporary design

Abstract

[EN] The experience of interpretation and design on the mexican self-built fabric of San Martin de las Flores in San Pedro de Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara, Jalisco-Mexico, is presented here as an instrumental case of study for a discourse about the primary role of routes in the interpretation and design of urban built environment. After a brief introduction about the value of routes, with their actual physical and virtual ambivalence, the paper focuses on the presentation of the interpretative work on the formative process that characterizes the settlement, then, on the presentation of a design proposal at the different scales. The core of the proposed study was elaborated at the Taller Internacional de Arquitectura y Urbanism Ciudad Cercana - San Pedro Tlaquepaque 2016 - INTHAB Instituto Tecnologico del Habitat, by a group composed by Prof. Arch. Giuseppe Strappa -“Sapienza” Università di Roma (co-ordinator), Arch. Vincenzo Buongiorno -“Sapienza” Università di Roma, Arch. Claudia Mora Reig - Universidad politecnica de Valencia and Andrea Gonzalez - Universidad de Guadalajara. In the adopted design philosophy, according to which interpretation and design tend to coincide, an interpretative tool such as the analysis of the routes’ pertinence strips, occupies a primary position and also becomes a ‘new’ tool for a design that is vitally permeated and structured by the anthropic act of walking. The goal of the paper is the experimental demonstration of a project mode that responds to the language crisis with the reduction of the expressive/authorial tone. This reduction is obtained by restarting "in vitro", as in the scientific laboratory, the formative process of the urban settlement read and interpreted on the living body of the city. For the construction of an organic and coherent anthropic environment.