Urban obsolescences – action as subtraction

Abstract

“The processes of construction and deconstruction of the urban fabric are related to diverse social, economic and political interests and depend on the existence of urban intervals for their composition. Thus, an interval is always constructed from material and immaterial displacements. An interval is composed of a space and a time between two distinct realities. The deconstruction of an interval corresponds to an expectation of a future construction, of a process of exploring the constructive potential of that space. By deconstructing it, another reality is constructed, to which, in fact, the interval has always been related. Deconstructing an interval is a matter of time. Of the time that defines it as interval."