INHABITING THE ROAD: PATHWAYS, AFFECTIONS, AND TEMPORARY SHELTERS

Abstract

The house is not a place, but a path. The objective of this article is to open the gaze to inhabit as an act
that occurs on the journey between spaces. Living, in architecture, is usually interpreted as an
experience that is determined by the analysis of a site and the subjectivity of the inhabitant. The house,
in this sense, is understood as an element closely linked to its context. From an anthropological
approach that rescues narratives of the rarámuri house and migrant shelters, an experience of living as
part of a journey is proposed, where architecture is codified and signified from the situation of the
inhabitant, changing, uprooted and constantly transit. The central argument is that life happens on the
road. Life is a constant movement that does not stop, why should the house do it? If the experience of
inhabiting imprints roots and belonging, this experience also occurs in intermediate places, in
undefined spaces such as seasonal houses and temporary shelters.