UNGREEN | Brise-Soleil

This article is part of Ungreen, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we attempt to create a resistance against some of the dogmas assimilated within contemporary discourse that sustainable architecture has to be “green”. We want to recover the ancestral knowledge that was shared among generations throughout history of humanity and defines how urban settlements have adapted to its weather conditions.This knowledge, inherent to vernacular architecture has been often used by modern or contemporary architectural practices to create new techniques or construction systems. Este artículo es parte de Ungreen, una serie comisariada por Hidden Architecture donde tratamos de crear una resistencia contra algunos de los dogmas asimilados en el discurso actual que claman que la arquitectura sostenible tiene que ser verde. Queremos recuperar el conocimiento ancestral que ha sido heredado a través de generaciones a lo largo de la historia de la humanidad y que define como los asentamientos urbanos se han ido adaptando a sus condiciones climáticas. Este conocimiento, manifestado en la arquitectura vernácula se ha filtrado en ocasiones a prácticas arquitectónicas modernas o contemporáneas, evolucionado hacia nuevas técnicas o sistemas constructivos Example: Sede Associação Brasileira de Imprensa (ABI) Brise-Soleil is any permanent solar obstruction system that blocks or deflects the solar rays. This system can be both static or movable, and it can be located both in a facade or a roof. To reduce all the possibilities and systems, in this article of the series UNGREEN, I am briefly starting with the evolution of the façade systems by Le Corbusier in Europe during the 1930s, and I am omitting those vernacular examples he could have used as a reference.