VIRTUAL: Prague Heritages

Abstract

As Richard Sennett carried out in his book « Building and Dwelling. Ethics for the city » (2018), this research aims to study the porosity of a historic pavilion. The case study is the Morisco Pavilion (Kiosk) in Santa María la Ribera, in Mexico City. The methodology is based on bibliographic historic information, considering literary and graphic documents, as well as on the analysis of the current situation of the monument within its context. The question that guides the investigations is: how the essence of a pavilion typology has transformed its actual context in a symbolic site, into a place of memory that gives meaning to a public space? The research focuses on demonstrating how porous spaces, as the historic pavilion that emerged as ephemeral, were later integrated into urban contexts, and are now part of the collective memory and identity of the community where they are located. The case study will allow us to understand how their presence leaves evidence of a changing process in the city. It will also express the relations of the pavilion as a porous space that gives sense of identity to a public space.