Roof / Edge

The contemporary urban landscape, composed of edifices of time: a varied and contrasted canvas of old and new, where buildings –through their components- tell stories of technology, culture and identity. Through time, age and context, these physical recollections of roof forms and edges make statements of societal hierarchies and bureaucracies, give indications of stylistic and technological advancements, and tell stories of a deeply entrenched symbolic and cultural value, some of which having been relentlessly influenced by colonial and regulatory decree. Where the combination of aesthetic, technological and utilitarian significance of traditional roofing adornments once also carried elaborate motifs that warded off bad energy in a spiritual conquest for protection and enlightenment, to the contemporary tectonic roofing ensembles which profess fresh forms and edges with expressive silhouettes and imaginative structural underpinnings, the roof edge reflects the varied and complex ideology and consciousness of the time, creating spectacles that narrate stories of our cultural origins while representing a rich memoir of place and identity in our perpetual pursuit for development.roof / edge The contemporary urban landscape, composed of edifices of time: a varied and contrasted canvas of old and new, where buildings –through their components- tell stories of technology, culture and identity. Through time, age and context, these physical recollections of roof forms and edges make statements of societal hierarchies and bureaucracies, give indications of stylistic and technological advancements, and tell stories of a deeply entrenched symbolic and cultural value, some of which having been relentlessly influenced by colonial and regulatory decree. Where the combination of aesthetic, technological and utilitarian significance of traditional roofing adornments once also carried elaborate motifs that warded off bad energy in a spiritual conquest for protection and enlightenment, to the contemporary tectonic roofing ensembles which profess fresh forms and edges with expressive silhouettes and imaginative structural underpinnings, the roof edge reflects the varied and complex ideology and consciousness of the time, creating spectacles that narrate stories of our cultural origins while representing a rich memoir of place and identity in our perpetual pursuit for development.