The workshop “Cultura Material no Alentejo” highlighted how rammed earth, beyond its role as building material, can act as a critical device for rethinking architectural design. Its reversibility, local availability, and embedded memory position it as a tool for contextual, ethical, and transformative practices. Design, understood as an act of care and relational engagement, transcends form to become a cultural and environmental process—one capable of generating alternative imaginaries, inhabiting time, and re-signifying built heritage.
Building with earth: between constructive memory and design Innovation / Costruire con la terra: tra memoria costruttiva e innovazione progettuale / Turchiarulo, Mariangela - In: Terra da possa terra. Cultura material no alentejo Arquitectura de terra: entra a conservação e a inovação / Braz Afonso R., Ladiana D., Nuno L.L.. - STAMPA. - Porto : Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, 2025. - ISBN 978-989-8527-71-4.
Building with earth: between constructive memory and design Innovation / Costruire con la terra: tra memoria costruttiva e innovazione progettuale
Mariangela Turchiarulo
2025
Abstract
The workshop “Cultura Material no Alentejo” highlighted how rammed earth, beyond its role as building material, can act as a critical device for rethinking architectural design. Its reversibility, local availability, and embedded memory position it as a tool for contextual, ethical, and transformative practices. Design, understood as an act of care and relational engagement, transcends form to become a cultural and environmental process—one capable of generating alternative imaginaries, inhabiting time, and re-signifying built heritage.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
