Activo vs. Pasivo: La arquitectura de los cuatro modos

Abstract

This article aims to establish a new register of architectures based on their way of managing the climate in order to relocate the climatic management of the space and the role of its inhabitant as a fundamental material of the architectural design. In a line that follows Lisa Heschong's research on building’s thermal qualities, passing through Eva Horn's views on the loss of relationship with the climate, to finally complement the climate management modes proposed by Reyner Banham. Examples of the four modes are developed in their raw condition: Retardant, Hermetic, Selective and Regenerative; separating them conceptually to incorporate them as architectural material in a necessarily combined way. And thus re-establish an active relationship between habitable experiences and the richness of climatic variations.