La función de las edificaciones en el acondicionamiento, contención y organización de actividades en el sistema Kirón

The dual purpose of meeting the great housing needs of inter-tropical zones, without further compromising the stability of their ecosystems, requires new concepts that help bridge the gap that exists between the organizational schemes of natural and artificial systems. Based on the wide scientific information available about living systems (LS), this paper –through analogies and deductions– presents some of the attributes that must be included in the concept of containment and organization of buildings closely linked to LS’s. To this end, the concept of the Kiron System (KS) is presented, which is a new level in the hierarchy of hybrid, semi-artificial nature, formed by three sub-systems: ecosystem, the human body as an organism or biosystem, and the building or artificial system. Its function is, precisely, to eliminate the dichotomy between the organizational logic of natural systems and artificial systems; an organization where these systems can link their matter, energy and information processes to form the functional components of KS. It is in the core of the KS system where the concept of containment and organization of activities, traditionally assigned to buildings, is modified. The boundaries of the Kiron System become the new “container” in which the building or artificial system (AS) is transformed, simultaneously, into container and contained. In this scheme, the organizational role of AS is subordinated to the organizational characteristics of living systems in which it is nested, and its function is to organize, in a specific and gradual manner, the interactions between the natural elements present in each situation, to build the hybrid structural components in which the functional components of KS must be materialized. El doble propósito de satisfacer las grandes necesidades habitacionales en las zonas intertropicales, sin comprometer aún más la estabilidad de sus ecosistemas, requiere de nuevos conceptos que contribuyan a solventar el divorcio existente entre los esquemas organizativos de los sistemas naturales y el de los artificiales. Apoyándose en la extensa información científica disponible acerca de los sistemas vivos (SV), se infieren en el presente trabajo algunos de los atributos que deben integrar los conceptos relativos a las funciones de acondicionamiento, contención y organización de actividades de aquellas edificaciones estrechamente vinculadas a los SV. Para ello se expone el concepto del Sistema Kiron (SK) –elemento que integra el actual desarrollo de la tesis Doctoral del autor– consistente en un nuevo nivel jerárquico de