Tabula Consistens
Ecological Reserve in Buenos Aires
Architectural Association
Intermediate Unit 12
London, United Kingdom, 1998-1999
Professor: Ciro Najle
Students: Enrico Buonanno, Jordi Pages i Ramon, Cosimo Sesti, Cesar López Negrete, Christian Hutter Blueml, Sabine Beuscher, Hayssam Moubayed, Kenzo Osuga, Mio Sato, Wan Sophonpanich, Roman Wittmer
Similar to the way a straight line can be conceived as a tight case of a curve, the Tabula Rasa is a case of Tabula Consistens. Tabula Consistens is the pre-architectonic plane from where architecture emerges, a desert that is populated, potentially, by architecture. It is the abstract machine, a resonance box, a series of diagrams as much as the machine of production of those diagrams. In the line of production of order out of chaos, Tabula Consistens is the section where the infinite becomes the many. It exists before order and after chaos. Instead of saying “where there is nothing everything is possible, where there is architecture nothing (else) is possible”, we say: “before architecture, our plane virtualizes many futures, yet not any future.
The research explores the production of architecture from the construction of planes of consistency, using the Ecological Reserve of Buenos Aires as a territorial lab.
