Territórios da Transgressão

The city extends its territory into spaces where various types of order are established. Generally speaking, what we call places, in their eminently topological sense, correspond to the zones of influence in which, at different scales, institutions control community life to some extent.
The complexity of the relationships that exist between the various constituent parts of a place, from the block to the neighborhood, proves that what we call urbanity is a very rich framework of customs, forms and modes of appropriation. It is in the play of figures where various fine or coarse “nets” intersect that a kind of drawing of the city takes shape. The order that develops in time and space never ceases to be reinforced by time itself, as a factor of change.

On the other hand, the law, a human invention, aims to guarantee the maintenance of all the orders involved in the process of coexistence between inhabitants. The city and its architecture are no exception to this logic. However, no city presents itself as a perfect design. It’s as if “no-man’s-lands” survive in the disjointedness of its structures, where control and transgression vie for territory.
The same thing happens with the logics that apparently generated these structures: contradiction ends up being their common factor. It is the various types of tension that result from this, causing order and chaos to coexist, that we will deal with in Territories of Transgression. There is, however, a fundamental difference between law and design. This difference is of the same type as that which arises between orders given and their execution in the general context of human life.

A program by Lucinda Correia
Mastering: Francisco Petrucci