Passeig Barcino: Interficie de Barcino

Abstract

How can architecture contribute to the architectural experience of archaeology? Architecture is the manipulation of sensory elements encountered by inhabitants of a space. Therefore, architecture serves as interface for the architectural experience of the inhabitant i.e. the building as interface. Architectural experience is the sensation evoked in an inhabitant by the manipulation of sensory elements in a space. The architecture exists as an objective reality, while the architectural experience is unique to each individual. The objective reality of the architecture is misinterpreted, but the pooling of collective experiences in a cumulative discussion of events creates an optimal understanding of the architecture. This concept lies at the core of epistemological and hermeneutical study, particularly in the study and interpretation of archaeology. Archaeology is the recovery and observation of material information to create interpretive narratives of the past. Building more accurate interpretive narratives of the past rely on the ability to accumulate knowledge and multiple perspectives of the objectively true reality, while presenting and discussing that information. These perspectives take the form of unique events in place and time. Optimizing the presentation of such events requires the manifestation of a plurality of events given equidistance from the central, objective reality. Such an intervention calls for the space to be the object, ungrounding an envelope, and identifying with the geochronological law of superposition through reverse stratigraphic behavior.