BAC · Boletín Académico. Journal of research and contemporary architecture

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Editorial

• Editorial

  Pablo Gallego Picard

  7-9

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2024.14.11547

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Articles

• Becoming fish, world-remaking Forgetting gestures learned

  Santiago Manuel Alfonso Fernández Santiago Boschin Navarro Paula Fernández San Marcos

  10-27

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  Looking back for signs of other ways of doing can become a support for reactionary and nostalgic wills. Therefore, the objectuality of the term "field" has to be complemented with a becoming other, the primordial quality of the landscape where all potential relationship is still possible, giving back to reality a constructive hermeneutic. Likewise, it is no less true that the imperative need to reimagine the world and our relationship with it must attend to the gestures that have so far shaped it. In its decentralized globality, we are invited to navigate diverse latitudes in search of other ways of integrating the recognition of the random continuity of the world in order to imagine and reimagine other architectures and landscapes. From France, with a young Michel Serres, to the Island of Teshima and Ryue Nishizawa's Museum of Art, some considerations are proposed to reformulate the relationship of the "field" with contemporary practice.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2024.14.10232

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• The care in colonizing the landscape: The Floating University of Berlin

  Aurora Fernandez Rodríguez Luis de Fontcuberta Rueda

  28-47

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  The colonization of the rehabilitated landscape of the Floating University of Berlin was initiated by the Raumlabor collective in 2018 for the creation and experimentation of a social space. They engage in the care and repair of a water collector infrastructure and propose dismountable objects to produce a habitat and well-being derived from qualitative interaction with the environment, not only as a mere social necessity but by adding programs from interconnected diversity and individuality.

  The old models of land use are challenged and replaced by new hybrid systems where there is a flexible agreement between the city and nature. The project of the Floating University of Berlin utilizes tools that express the fleeting manifestation of diversity to imagine and create new forms of life. They open the door to the enormous possibilities of a new planning and land management approach based on care, moving away from the opposition between countryside and city to achieve a new social value.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2024.14.10212

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• Antonio Fernández Alba. Shaping an oasis in the middle of the desert

  Carlos Gonzalvo Salas

  48-69

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  In its simplest definition, the landscape of the desert epitomizes emptiness and vastness, qualities that stand in contrast to those inherent in human nature. The workers settlement at Zorita Nuclear Power Plant, located in the middle of the desert region of the Alcarria, provides insights into the endeavor of providing temporary housing for a small group of residents within the expansive desert. This essay delves into the perspective of Madrid-based architect Antonio Fernández Alba, examining the strategies employed in this project from a professional standpoint. Abandoned and uninhabited since 2006, the settlement is devised to establish a livable space within such a challenging landscape. One of the key strategies involves the creatin of a kind of oasis that contrast both socially and climatically with the nature environment of the desert.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2024.14.10233

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• Designing the landscape of the huerta of Alicante through speculative design and affirmative cartographies

  Ester Gisbert Alemany Enrique Nieto Fernández Alfonso M. Cuadrado Mulero María Ayara Mendo Pérez

  70-95

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  The article presents the huerta of Alicante, a traditional irrigated landscape on the verge of disappearance, and a practice-based research with the project ‘Camins de l'Aigua’. In this landscape architecture project, we have used graphic and narrative tools to reconstruct an imaginary that makes the task of water management desirable again, but in different ways. We explain how we have avoided the dangers of nostalgia associated with the promotion of heritage landscapes by using the theories of feminist scholars Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, namely speculative fabulation and affirmative cartographies. The former helped us to improve the technique of narratives of the more-than-human we encountered in the field. The latter has helped us to activate the critical potential of the landscape even in a tourism and cultural promotion context, while maintaining an affirmative ethic.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2024.14.10266

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Book reviews

• Una arquitectura del perímetro. Cinco historias del espacio público en Sevilla. Pedro Mena Vega

  Miguel Rabán Mondéjar

  96-97

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/bac.2024.14.11486

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