El borde como generador de encuentro

Abstract

To inhabit the border of the city, the natural space, the ravine, the road, poverty, failure, success, and death. In Spanish, the definition of border transcends the bordering and the confining, it allows to be used in describing situations of transition. Thus, the edge implies a direct relationship with the physical or with the ethereal. In this case, the generated bond by the inhabiting proposes a spatial and virtual relationship between the human being and the place. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the accelerated urban growth experienced by cities had morphological consequences, including the elimination of elements that, prior to this transformation, served as a border and had a defined role. Through the analysis of Madrid, New York and Berlin in three different centuries an understanding of the border is sought as this active space, in constant evolution and with important attributes due to its continuous condition and its close contact with the city. Through the analysis of three urban and landscape projects, this essay intents to understand the border as an area capable of transforming the city and becoming an encounter space.