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3. Sustainable morphology as integral to the signs of iterative and matrix phenomenal realities (G.
Taibi)
Very often it happens to have to take account of the consistency of widespread phenomenal realities, the
fruit of the creative process of man that is manifested in a simple and spontaneous way.
Such are cases ascribable to the translation in architectonic terms of required apparatus, crudely expressed
by those describing in practical terms that which represents necessary needs.
The mind engages in this fertile activity, carrying out a system of appropriateness between necessity and
areas, planimetric and volumetric, according to the space available.
In all this, the human mind unconsciously also takes account of external factors, such as accessibility from
the outside and the relationship of visual communication with the surrounding environment, which
unequivocally tend to affect the articulation of his habitat.
We thus witness an expressive freedom that is, with certainty, detached from the competence of operators in
that field, experts in the morphologic composition of making architecture.
In reality – it being understood that innovative processes and transformations that determine progress in the
various fields of knowledge, art and technique are surely the outcome of those constructive qualities of the
imagination, of fantasy - the product of creativity must be interfaced with the reality of the reference context.
Fig. 7: The site suggests. Emilio Ambasz, Schlumberger Research Laboratories, Austin, USA, 1982.
Everything must be brought into play in a very broad and shared concept, namely with appropriateness to
the typology of the topos.
In practice, one faces a situation attributed to the systemic entirety of the complexity that plays a certain and
determining role in the issue of sustainability in the morphologic order of architecture; sustainability that,
generally, concerns a subject, whose interpretation is by vocation very broad and surely very close to
conservation and the prospects of compatible development of the territory.
“It must in any case be recognized that at every historical moment, human activity, notably that of building,
has set out to satisfy present requirements, implanted in some way in the groove of the former ones, but only
where it could acknowledge their permanent validity, and projected towards the future, but only where it
might augur a real expectation of advantage.” [7]
We must fundamentally reflect on the conditions with respect to which the human being, in expressing
himself by producing morphologies adapted to the needed apparatus of the individual and grafted onto the
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