PROJECT TYRANNUS MELANCHOLICUS

We live in a world threatened by a collapsing social, ambiental and economic system. Each life system changes throughout its evolutionary history through the exercise of its ingenious potential to adapt to the environment, living beings carry a deep survival instinct. Tyrannus Melancholicus is a bird specie that uses industrial materials in the construction of its nests, as a result of this adaptability to humans, it has the status of little concern about extinction.

“The constant movement makes the project remain indeterminate. The unfinished is imposed, the order is incomplete and changeable. It is a potential move towards completeness or something like the uncertainty of the future and the suggestion of innumerable possibilities for prolongation. The unfinished incites exploration, discovery.” - JACQUES, P. B. The Aesthetics of Ginga: Slum architecture through the work of Hélio Oiticica.

The use of wire, plastic and other industrial materials is not for lack of branches; the same as the basic cause of urban slums is not poverty but wealth. T. melancholicus and communities are bricoleurs, existence of inventors in opposing spaces.  The project's proposal is to carry out the process of building the Tyrannus Melancholicus nesting on a human scale, bringing to the work the fragments of poverty and urban wealth. An architectural experiment about what could happen if our social system just be more inspired and related to other living beings.