Steps and Small Stairways for Access to Small Constructions in the Towns of Ajusco (Mexico City): Morphology and Dreaming

Abstract

This text tests an approach of the researcher’s glance into the
presence and modality of existence of the constructive
characteristic typical of vernacular architecture prevalent in the
area under study: the mountainous southwest of Mexico City.
This is done starting with three photographs of contemporary
instances of the phenomenon.
The purpose is a close understanding of the particular form
of the presented examples, and an exploration of the lines of
dreaming that is possible to weave around those instances lived
as events or facts of the glance.
The experiment lets us see the very close imbrication of the
significant processes with the network of the social (economic/
material/symbolic) and the historical as testimony of human
manufacture. Likewise it points out some of the possible lines of
investigation.