A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
In animal space there are activities, instinctive behaviour and the contextContext; a space in which the animals, including humans play out their lives. It is with these two parameters of context Context and activities that Darwin Darwin, Charles places his theory of natural selection: species adapt and physically adjust to their environment. This adaption is also done through a manipulation of the environment: through the construction of enclosures to provide for protection as well as physically comfortable space. In the jungle Jungle we can find pyramids Pyramid that go beyond the basic constructions that provide shelter. These monumental structures are symbolic spaces expressing humanity’s desire to overcome the limitationsLimits, limitations of their contextContext, to reach beyond themselves. In the dense Guatemalan jungleJungle, standing on top of one of those great Mayan Maya, Mayanedifice, Tikal Tikal 1, a layered space unfolds beneath. We can see the jungle Jungle with its spatial hierarchy that can be read in a similar way as Abraham Maslow Maslow, Abraham defined his hypothesis of the Hierarchy of Needs. Going further back in time, humanities’ conscious use of fire Fire is investigated as the way it has been used to control the context Context in space and time. The creation of this man-controlled bubble of heat and light could be considered as that very moment when architecture was born.
In animal space there are activities, instinctive behaviour and the contextContext; a space in which the animals, including humans play out their lives. It is with these two parameters of context Context and activities that Darwin Darwin, Charles places his theory of natural selection: species adapt and physically adjust to their environment. This adaption is also done through a manipulation of the environment: through the construction of enclosures to provide for protection as well as physically comfortable space. In the jungle Jungle we can find pyramids Pyramid that go beyond the basic constructions that provide shelter. These monumental structures are symbolic spaces expressing humanity’s desire to overcome the limitationsLimits, limitations of their contextContext, to reach beyond themselves. In the dense Guatemalan jungleJungle, standing on top of one of those great Mayan Maya, Mayanedifice, Tikal Tikal 1, a layered space unfolds beneath. We can see the jungle Jungle with its spatial hierarchy that can be read in a similar way as Abraham Maslow Maslow, Abraham defined his hypothesis of the Hierarchy of Needs. Going further back in time, humanities’ conscious use of fire Fire is investigated as the way it has been used to control the context Context in space and time. The creation of this man-controlled bubble of heat and light could be considered as that very moment when architecture was born.
Of Pyramids and Fire
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
van der Linden, Martin (author)
2021-03-13
21 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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