La clasificación: Una herramienta para la inclusión de la vivienda vernácula urbana en el universo arquitectónico

Abstract

This article is the doctoral thesis summary titled "Modelo para la clasificación arquitectónica a partir de sus components básicos" (UNAM,2007), (Architectural classifi cation model based on basic components), which shows the way architecture is traditionally classifi ed, that is from: models related to other disciplines, historical periods, cultural aspects, geographic location or specifi c historical periods, resulting in partial classifi cations, related to the style's component, which excludes great part of the objects that constitute the architecture universe, especially the ones produced by empirical architects (rural and urban vernacular architecture). In order to tackle this classifi cation problem, a new model of classifi cation is proposed based on the fundamental components of architectonic objects: style, form, ornament, structure, function and space. The classification model was applied to objects from the academic and vernacular architecture. It was concluded that in both cases, function variable is the predominant one; even in its synthesis, a direct relationship can be established among its basic components. The analyzed objects were described aside from the usual adjectives such as cubist, high tech, modern or post-modern with component related characteristics; so they were also portrayed as: stylist, formalist, ornamental, structuralist, functionalist or spatial. Housing is mainly produced within the vernacular architecture. The architectural solutions that emerged from it, allowed the academic scholar and the "other" approach helping each other enrich the commonly proposed solutions.. For this study two houses were chosen and the results demonstrate that the classifi cation may be the starting point for those objects inclusion, usually not considered by most architecture specialist.