New men and synthetic fields.

The infrastructural urbanization of Terra Chá through the Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Abstract

This paper approaches the only experience of the Instituto Nacional de Colonización in Galicia, in A Terra Chá, from the perspective of infrastructural design. Its singular disperse condition, where the dwellings do not respond to an urban form but only to logistic principles, allows us to apprehend the political, technical and project aspirations of creating a new landscape for a new man and the consequences that, more than fifty years after its completion, this spatial matrix of active forms, technical and discursive objects has produced. On this basis, the synthetic condition of a modern territory urbanised under the premise of maximising resources will be analysed from three complementary points of view: its mediatic construction, its environmental construction and the construction of a new man destined to inhabit it.