Ecology, Tourism, Landscape and Design

Abstract

This text is a brief fly over a general interest topic. In the marrow of the eco-architectural speech it appears a term known as "eco-accomodation", its typology can be recognized in the example of Sacbe"s Botanical Park and Eco-touristic Villa. In the professional designers" imaginary, prevails the belief that dims the city understanding and surroundings. One of them is the idea of landscape as a concept composed by the anthithetic notions of artificial and natural landscapes, we are been conditioned to think the opposite: to unite and conciliate culturally split concepts, to replace our beliefs and to transfer us from the environment concept as exteriority to another one that reveals its multidimensionality and explain it as environmental complexity. Architectonic design production is an act of environmental planning, because of it, cities are created; we are all interdependent actors and organisms of this process. From the deep ecology point of view and in the realm of architectonic projectation the "ambience" concept must pass from being design"s raw material to the restoration and conservation of the object within the architectonic program. The ground and materials that become part of the architecture"s attainment are not only a capital at its disposal, but entrusted resources, placed under care of projectual activity. In the realm of eco-tourism planning, "the eco-accommodation" is the concept of a building identified as suitable for an alternative tourist practice. The ecotourism and eco-accomodations arose in conventional tourist practice, as a regulating process, its the kind of tourism and lodging that is more easily adapted to the emergent request of a planetary viability. Conceptually, eco-accomodation is a singular idea because it was born with a very clear life plan: auto-organization and reintegration to environment in the future. It is not possible to act in a specific or limited way. Design is not a smaller and not even an isolated discipline. We are in the node of an immense network of creative activities, designing the world form modifying indirectly its qualities and availabilities. In design we do not have to think in terms of individuals only, but of individual and atmosphere. Culture and human biology are in communion, they co-produce each other and they are components of a same loop; we are completely biological and cultural human beings.