ABSTRACT
Solá-Morales proposed that the urban matter, which he refers to as the skin of the city, transmits us the collective energy of the city, carrying with it the complex meanings and cultural references that makes them a semantic matter, which carries the memory of places. The idea of a city skin, opens a concept for a tactile distinctiveness of the space.
There are fundamental rules for this to be structured, where functionalist issues impose themselves as distinctive of an ethical sense of architecture.
The moments of revelation, provided by a higher vision over the city’s lower reality, display us designs, with an expression that transcends the mere dimension of the useful, sublimating some spaces to the plateau of Art.
The pavements often result, as links of symbolic connection to the City Ground, because they enshrine continuous structures of significant spaces, whose plastic expression makes possible the recognition of the territories of the walk, as mnemonic registers of the city. The subtleness of its variations, may cast the surfaces in such a distinctive way that, as a container of the most varied types of objects, the pavements became the space of the efficiency of walking and standing, which demonstrate, the relevance of walking the city as a poetic singularity, creating Architecture, by the liturgy of the stepped spaces.
