Recycling and architectural collage

Abstract

Reuse, in its simplest and most authentic meaning, originates the collage that emerges from the fragments of materials used. It is the territory where, apparently, the creations of intrusive architecture are produced. Improvised and intuitive works, usually outside the law. Constructions that are closely linked to the phenomenon of creating a personal and intimate refuge. Architecture faced with ordinances and laws, but that recovers the freedom and independence of creating without that little improved and rusty traditionalism of pure and immaculate matter. An architecture that explores alternatives far from any apparent intellectual commitment, becoming, on many occasions, truly original technical contributions. These are constructions that are not materialized from an initial conception but from the instrumentality of reuse in a haphazard way, which means that we find ourselves before works in constant process, but not for that reason unfinished. An architecture without architects that has largely managed to appropriate the genuine meaning of collage.