“The first man wanted to build a shelter that would cover him without burying him.” With some logs found in the forest, he built a square covered with straw so that neither the sun nor the rain could enter, and thus, he felt safe. The description above refers, in a simplified way, to the theory of the primitive hut developed by the abbot Marc-Antoine Laugier in the mid-1700s. The small rustic hut described by Laugier is a model upon which he imagined the magnificence of architecture. It provides an important reference point for all speculation about construction foundations and represents the first architectural idea."
In this sense, the primitive hut can be understood as an abstract concept of a place that explores the anthropological relationship between man and the natural environment as a basis for architecture. That is, despite the complexity of the concept and its numerous interpretations, through it, we can understand the role of architecture as a mediator between man and nature.
