El Conflicto Temporal del Espacio Arquitectónico en la Era del Tiempo Global : Cronópolis

We measure the territory by its extension, the value of homes by its square meters, the holiday destination by distance, the devastation of the Amazon by its Cartesian dimensions or architectural beauty in relation to its geometry: space dominates how we produce buildings and regulates the materiality of our habitats, defining how we live, drawing frontiers and reducing daily life to distances, volumes and areas. Meanwhile, the time parameter, the one that really controls our lives, is relegated to the background, submissive and simplified. Until a few years ago, the temporal variable had a purely machinic meaning for its ability to measure the world in multiples of years or seconds; the idea evoked was that of an empty time, which existed without belonging to anyone or anything, but affecting all areas of human existence. In particular, the absence of temporality in the construction of our world from the architecture and engineering point of view, has caused the freezing of human habitats, generating a great conflict in the inability to adjust to natural time or adapt to the diverse and changing circumstances of its inhabitants: today, we all dance to the rhythm of the motor vehicle, as our grandparents did. The analysis of the new space-time relations reveals the conflict between a city created spatially but crossed by the new technological temporalities that travel instantaneously through the new information highways, burying the Cartesian space. All the events of the citizens are connected in time, independently of the inhabited spaces, dissolving the classic dualities that have governed the production of architecture: day-night, inside-outside, private-public, artificial-natural, physical-digital … The new technological temporality not only demands a new understanding of human habitats, but of them in relation to the rest of the World. The superposition of the multiple temporal layers, require new complex ways of thinking space and time in architecture to reconnect it with the needs of its inhabitants and create new inclusive, diverse and sustainable environments synchronized with the beat of our Planet.