This is the north part of the enclosure of Salvada. As is clearly seen, there is a linear outside ditch and a sinuous one by the inside, with a quite regular lobular pattern (like in Xancra, Santa Vitória or Outeiro Alto 2).
How to interpret this design? The sinuous well
patterned ditch implies a multiplication (more than the double) of the effort
to open the ditch. And what functional purpose can we detect in that design and
effort? Certainly, those that once have seen bastions in these
semicircular shapes will not suggest that we have a sequence of bastions side
by side, not being able to have the function of a bastion. It would be an
absurd proposition, as it would be to talk about water canals.
No, this design has to be explain by the ideological dimension
of Architecture and sociology of space and to approach that we have to be well
supplied of social theory (of sociological, psychological, anthropological and philosophical
origin), or we only be able, with the linear minds of the “axiomatic obvious”, to
tell linear old stories perpetuated by lineages of members of the “definite
discourse”.
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