SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: THE CERDAN HOUSE, A CASE OF STUDY

SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: THE CERDAN HOUSE, A CASE OF STUDY

Phenomenological Aspects of Civil Engineering (PACE) - an International Congress
Volume 1 - Issue 1 - PACE-2021

Barbara Garcia

Abstract

This article reflects how social representations of the built environment are managed; how they exist in continuous relationship with those who inhabit it. They are particular representations created from experience within a value system and a culture. Thus, a change in these representations may imply a transformation of their inhabitants’ identities. Conversely, every city, landscape or territory evolves through the representation of those who inhabit it. This text studies the dialogical relationship between the physical space and the socio-mental space of the inhabitants of a valley in the Pyrenees, la Cerdanya, divided between France and Spain. The changes that have occurred in the last half century have altered the representation of the traditional house type, thus affecting the physical construction of the architecture of the place, both traditional and modern

Keywords

SOCIAL REPRESENTATION, PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, DIALOGICAL ARCHITECTURE, IDENTITY
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