Seafront of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Spanish Architecture, Islas Canarias, Photos
Seafront of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain
4 Feb 2021
Landscape of Horizons
Design: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos
Location: Seafront of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Seafront

The horizon is shown to us as the face of the earth, an outline which identifies a place and differentiates it from another. Horizon and horizontal become close but reality shows us subtle nuances that make them diverse. We look up searching for reference points. This is the moment when the horizon serves us as a guideline, giving us coordinates that gives us our position.

The experience of space is fundamentally in motion. When we walk through an unknown place, we have moved carefully as we walk, watching our step. Suddenly, we are struck by a sense of disorientation and we look for a reference, we look at the horizon and recognize the place. The castaway longs to find land, a line on the horizon to guide him. We walk hand in hand with the horizons, believing we might have not get lost.
The sea offers us a succession of different sections in its encounters with the land. The same element, water, establishes different ways of revealing itself to a matter, the earth, through its form. The shore, the line of intersection of the water with the island, offers variations to a question of descriptive geometry: a rocky coast, a suspended plane, a port, …

The silhoutte of a coast provides an unstable p...