"The open space and solar are successive stages of the process of urbanization. A field left to grow becomes a wasteland. It is not until the core expands the urban wasteland becomes a field. When a construction company on the vacant lot is transformed into a site, the last stage before the final conquest. One day, a pile of sand or a cement mixer, or a pile of bricks. Then someone parked a car or an old couch. Gradually filled with mattresses, torn sweaters, plastic bags, car wheels, leaky buckets, mats, jerry cans, bars of metal or wood, debris, magazines, condoms, cat food containers ... And here the plot, this hybrid territory midway between nature and civilization. As the two materials concentrated areas, such as changing and remains unexplored, as it constitutes a continuous source of surprises, it is ideal as a pitch. Circuit outside the parents and relatives, the site allows more or less Paleolithic activities that help infants grow and integrate in a hostile and changing environment. A child piled bricks, other use a corner as urinary emergency, those playing mistry and beyond building a cabin that is no architectural wonder but it's yours.
The essence of the site is provisional. When raising a building, the site you will have lost everything, including the name of land. In a village not a serious loss because the suburbs are close, full of spaces to explore. But when a city loses a lot longer to have an open space, a laboratory, an exception. "
whist jugadors Els, Vicenç Pagès Jordà. Editorial Empúries. The translation is mine.
