Ready-Made architecture processes

The current infinitive development model is established on the over-exploitation of the territory and on the production of unnecessary elements. Considering the climate emergency faced, the architecture development urges to be based on alternatives that deny the exploitation of resources, whether are they material, energetic, or even human. Using a transdisciplinary methodology, it is explored the contribution of the artistic conceptual idea of the ready-made to an Architectural Project.
The research proposes to test the specific possibility of architectural practice solving the request and needs by maintaining the exact physical reality of the space, without building. The project takes place in the combination between reality and the look over it, as a process of intellectual construction of the existing reality, instead of physical construction. Transformation lies in a process of reality re-signification, emphasizing the potential of reality as a resource in itself. In this methodology, instead of drawing being the basic tool of architecture, the act of choice is the architectural practice and its design, as a result of critical reflection.
The research combines a practical character – through the exposure of existing practices combined and organized in an atlas of case studies – with a theoretical character – through the necessary creation of a specific vocabulary. Thus, recognizing re-signification as a project-response in the range of possibilities for the disciplinary practice of architecture it is created an area of knowledge that broadens the disciplinary field of architecture. This approach simultaneously emphasizes the emergence for a fundamental change in attitude towards the built environment by integrating this operative modality into a production system.