SEA BOARD CEMETERY

INTRODUCTION

THE LANGUAGE OF SUBSTANCIAL IMMOBILITY

The Chilean architect and theoretician Juan Borchers defined architecture as the "language of substancial immobility". This definition once again underlines the importance of architecture as a language able to comunicate mental and emotional phenomena of the culture, at the same time, the ideas of immobility and substance are implicit in the concepts of form and site ( the presence of a ground, and in a final instance of geography).

To explore how invisible forces present in the site can shape the substance of architecture is the proposal of this project.

We have been witnesses of paradoxical changes that have ocurred in our modern vision of culture. These changes that go beyond the reductionist and sequential thought with which we have identified reality until now. These changes allow entrance to a future joyful and creative conscience of the totality: to habit, belong and to be the universe itself at same time. An including conscience rather than an excluding one implies processes of understanding of the world and universe that cover from the mystic, archetypical, artistic descriptions, that cross our daily experiences, going through the science and theory. This, in a larger or lesser degree accounts for a database emerging from observation, in which we interpret how the universe reveals itself and how we know it.

When our glances are turned on the exterior searching links with other disciplines and human activities, anxious to redefine what design and architecture are, this project proposes that at the same time, those glances turn to the inner conscience, trying to conciliate the deep world of simbols and myth with the new and changing forms to come.

Convinced that every human´s existence is archetypical, at the moment of exploring new ways for architecture, I have decided to look back and ahead at the same time, exploring possible symbolic languages for the architecture of the future.