Pantheon’s door, Alberti's excavation and Chillida’s void. Forms of the hypogeum and architecture of hollow spaces
No form or type seems to be uniquely linked to sacred architecture, yet many of these sites possess a common character: the idea of hypogeal space. If in some of these places – especially the oldest – the space is the product of a real material movement, in others – more recent – the effect is repro...
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| description | No form or type seems to be uniquely linked to sacred architecture, yet many of these sites possess a common character: the idea of hypogeal space. If in some of these places – especially the oldest – the space is the product of a real material movement, in others – more recent – the effect is reproduced by massive forms, by the logic of subtraction of volumes, by the conception of space as a place 'carved out of the solid'.
Tracing the origins of this need apparently common to many cultures is hard, if not impossible, and although it is fascinating to think that all this has its genesis in the gesture of the excavation of the first tombs, the hypothesis would remain indemonstrable. Through three quick incursions, we will try to reflect on the sense of space in places devoted to the sacred and the ritual. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d0438006d044eb58ce54b1b583bfcc32022-12-22T03:37:52ZengFestival Architettura EdizioniFestival dell'Architettura Magazine2039-04912022-02-01057/58818810.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n57/58-2021/703316Pantheon’s door, Alberti's excavation and Chillida’s void. Forms of the hypogeum and architecture of hollow spacesGiuseppe Ferrarella0Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Dipartimento di ArchitetturaNo form or type seems to be uniquely linked to sacred architecture, yet many of these sites possess a common character: the idea of hypogeal space. If in some of these places – especially the oldest – the space is the product of a real material movement, in others – more recent – the effect is reproduced by massive forms, by the logic of subtraction of volumes, by the conception of space as a place 'carved out of the solid'. Tracing the origins of this need apparently common to many cultures is hard, if not impossible, and although it is fascinating to think that all this has its genesis in the gesture of the excavation of the first tombs, the hypothesis would remain indemonstrable. Through three quick incursions, we will try to reflect on the sense of space in places devoted to the sacred and the ritual.https://www.famagazine.it/index.php/famagazine/article/view/703ipogeocomposizionesomiglianza |
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| title | Pantheon’s door, Alberti's excavation and Chillida’s void. Forms of the hypogeum and architecture of hollow spaces |
| title_full | Pantheon’s door, Alberti's excavation and Chillida’s void. Forms of the hypogeum and architecture of hollow spaces |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Pantheon’s door, Alberti's excavation and Chillida’s void. Forms of the hypogeum and architecture of hollow spaces |
| title_short | Pantheon’s door, Alberti's excavation and Chillida’s void. Forms of the hypogeum and architecture of hollow spaces |
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| topic | ipogeo composizione somiglianza |
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