Regarding common construction. Minor agricultural infrastructure in Chile's Central Valley
- Author: Juan Paulo Alarcón Carreño
- Type of research: PhD (Doctoral Thesis)
- Lines of research: Heritage and Identity
- Directors: María José Pizarro Juanas, Carlos Quintáns Eiras
- Defense: 2021 September
Building demonstrations such as chicken coops and minor infrastructure to support agricultural work, reduce construction to that moment when it is about to be nothing. Its internal truth is exposed in a clear and simple way, the distance between work and project is eliminated, the what is united with the how. They are a provisional, OPEN response, attentive to the circumstances. A construction in progress that carries a long history that has reduced them to ENOUGH. A collective construction that is transmitted by imitating, appealing to the memory, to what is around us, to the memory that clings to the AFFECTIVE. In the history of architecture, the primitive hut, popular construction, architecture without architects have been looked at. Through treatises, books, articles, exhibitions and documentations they have been used as a mirror, tendentious alibis, elements of justification, validation and foundation. Comprehensive documentation of the same type makes it possible to relate the constructions as part of the same project. Above the particularities of each one, there is complex homogeneity. Avoiding any operative relationship, the elaboration of a critical catalog is presented as a pertinent way of observing them.