00_SHINE

If cold, then cold as a block of ice.

If hot, then hot as a blazing wing.

Architecture must blaze.

The shining architecture enhances the light of each project, taking its qualities to the brightest extreme. It projects rays of light on remote fields of action, full of unknown materials to be investigated, integrated, and developed, to generate complexity and advance in architecture. Shines in the gray world of standardized typologies, and commercial markets.

01_EXPAND KNOWLEDGE | Communication as a disciplinary expansion tool.

Globalization has homogenized the architecture and flattened the cultural differences of each place. The excess of massive and instantaneous communication expands all novelty, which then the market is in charge of saturating and transforming it into a fashionable, ephemeral, obsolescent and, superfluous product**. Faced with this, the shining strategy takes advantage of communication as a tool to educate and expand knowledge.

02_ OWNERSHIP OF UNKNOWN DISCIPLINARY FIELDS | Illuminate other disciplines as an opportunity for complexity.

Architecture must propose new paradigms that surpass the context, which allow disciplinary expansion. Explore new fields, expanding the information board to integrate vital praxis, understood as a way of overcoming autonomous discipline. Tensioning the shining architecture as a strategy to generate the emergence of hidden, unrecognized qualities. The unknown is an opportunity for complexity, it is not a problem that limits disciplinary development.

03_PROJECT WITH THE FUTURE, IN THE PRESENT | Produce ‘’ utopias’’

The label ‘’utopia’’ is assigned to projects that society is not yet capable of understanding and assimilating, limited by religious, social, and political prejudices. However, they are real projects that produce novel qualities to integrate into the project development in the present. At the same time, they are projects that strain the technological and economic capacities to produce advances. The shining ‘’utopian’’ architecture is ahead of the established and normalized.

04_PROJECT WITH THE PAST, IN THE PRESENT | Consider the anteriority of the architecture to produce projects with the power of criticism.

Integrate the history of architecture as a way to generate a discussion with the past, in the present. History affects the present as something new and different from its origin, with the power to grow and change. Projecting without history produces materials without value, integrating history produces projects with the power of criticism.

05_CRITICATE | Criticize as a provocation to intensify the project.

Thee criticizes is a part of the process, which provokes the project and builds knowledge. Strategy element that maximizes material relationships to produce and detect implicit realities. In this way, the project qualitatively consolidates its most shining properties and discards those that do not illuminate the project.

06_EXPAND THE VOCABULARY | Produce a new language.

The architectural language must expand in the face of new conditions generated by the shining architecture. The new conditions require new forms of expression.