The Architecture as Eclosion of the Landscape: Ecotouristic Infrastructure to Protected Areas

Abstract

Conceiving architecture for national parks, or related reserves, requires a different design attitude in relation to the practice of designing for urban or rural constructions. It is necessary to be aware that the architect is intervening in an area specially protected by its environmental characteristics, among which, many times, its scenic beauty. What is proposed in this article is the promotion of an Architecture that bows in reverence to the grandeur of the natural landscape and is at its service. An Architecture that is structured by the expressive forces of that special Nature, so as to be able to materialize as an outbreak of them. An Architecture that sprouts, instead of being implanted, but that, by mimicking itself in the landscape, stands out among its peers, as a work of Art. With a theoretical referential that is rooted in Geopoetics, the methodology proposed in this article fructifies in a projectual posture based on a feeling-thinking that finds in the natural elements its language references. At the end, the ideas exposed are illustrated with examples of buildings that materialize as interpretative products, assisting in the ecotouristic qualification of protected areas by offering sensorial, sensitive and rational stimuli to visitors, going far beyond the mere housing of managerial functions. By betting on the importance of Art for the management of protected areas, the promotion of enchantment as a public policy of environmental conservation is defended.