The fading of the threshold as a limit between the exterior and the interior in the work of Rogelio Salmona

Abstract

The investigation seeks to find how the architect Rogelio Salmona dilutes the limits of the project and breaks the tradition of the wall which at the same time is a facade, structure, and limit and recognizes the pedestrian is a user of the city’s public space, inviting him to participate in the project, achieving a symbiotic relationship between the public and the private. It achieves this by eliminating the enclosures that give the idea of a ghetto, allowing visitors to travel in all directions; This relationship has nothing to do with the scale or use of the project, it appears in housing complexes, facilities, or single-family homes, so it can be said without fear of being wrong that Salmona works for the city, which understands the pedestrian as its client and not only to those who finance their projects, although most of the time they have differences with them or whit the end users. The methodology used in the research consisted of analyzing how Rogelio Salmona resolves access to his projects, such as their enclosure, the work of the corners, the location of the buildings on the land, and the composition of the façade; the projects were selected taking in to account that they were of different scales and had diverse uses, thus we would verify that the operations correspond to a sought typology and not as a solution to a specific problem.