THE ARCHITECTURE OF AN ARCH — THINKING ARCHITECTURE AS A BODY MOVEMENT
02/07/2020Jaime Refoyo / Romeo D’Orazio
THE ARCHITECTURE OF AN ARCH— THINKING ARCHITECTURE AS A BODY MOVEMENT
A proposal for a debate by Jaime Refoyo & Romeo D’Orazio
Why do we never ask ourselves what we can bring that is new to the knowledge of our body experience with its surroundings using just the body - without any external electronic device? When did we lose the curiosity about our own body? And, doesn't that have anything to do with stopping to listen to nature?
We are an Architect, Romeo D’Orazio and a Geographer of Thought, Jaime Refoyo. And we are working together in finding a possible physical architecture that could extend the human body towards nature and viceversa. That is how our body is able to affect nature as nature affects us.
You can see two photos above. On the left a napkin with the mark of a bowl and two glasses and on the right six arches executed freehand on a sheet of paper.
As we are used to seeing in many technical drawings, in the photo on the left you can see how three circles coincide in a single point. And as we know also, to do that, we only need our will because we have tools to make it possible. But on the contrary, what you are seeing in the photo on the right is not possible to make by will. To make it possible for these arches to relate with each other in that perfect geometric relationship it is necessary to work in partnership with the environment.
Jaime Refoyo works on researching and developing the expression of a common language from human kind capable of structuring itself on the natural movement of the body. He’s called the investigation of this language ‘Geography of Thought’, a science whose only work tools are: the body, a pencil and a sheet of paper.
This research is based on the conviction that certain experience with our space of coexistence is only possible through the knowledge gained from a specific corporal consciousness.