Recintos-no-recintos: La disolución del límite entre arquitectura y natura. Enclosures-not-enclosures: The dissolution of the boundary between architecture and nature

The essay, as the result of a research on the figure of the fence in architecture, analyzes three contemporary works in which the element of the wall is dematerialized, allowing to differentiate and separate an interior from an exterior. The dissolution of this fundamental element of the architectural composition has a profound meaning: integrating architecture into the landscape to generate an evanescent depth in which the human presence is inserted, and which allows for dialogue between Nature and artifice. The three case studies —the Solo House II by the studio OFFICE, Garden Hotpot Restaurant by MUDA Architects and Garden of the Third Landscape by Gilles Clément & Coloco— offer three different ways to functionally and constructively solve the transition from an interior to an exterior —the threshold— but with a single purpose: to delimit a field of action in which human rituals take place, without relegating the context to a marginal role, indeed, vice versa, integrating it to define a refined landscape reading device.