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Vaults

2018–2007


List of architectural projects with rooms having an arched or cave-shaped roof



Introduction

For much that has been built in the World, the presence of the ‘words’ , and has been constant. The modern age, on the other hand, had progressively removed this ancient ‘word’ from current usage. New ‘words’, which referred to the machine age, were introduced. A deterministic letter on the phenomenon interpreted such substitution as a consequence of the introduction of new techniques of construction, made possible by the advent of the Industrial Revolution (concrete, iron and glass). But, despite this, the ‘words’ Vault, Grotto and Arch still inhabit our imagination. They embody archetypes that still move us today. According to Heidegger, ‘language is the house of the Being’,⁠[1] so, its happening in time could reveal to us the hidden structure of that historicity that it makes possible. The ‘words’ Vault, Grotto and Arch happen in the exercise of the psychological function of Sensation:⁠[2] that possibility of transfiguring the experience that we make in the World, through our body, in architecture. Modern architecture seemed to have lost this erotic-sacral discourse. Its forms appeared as consequences of logical thought, whose overvaluation inhibits all possible integral knowledge of reality.


Notes

  1. ^ Martin Heidegger, Über den Humanismus, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1949; It. ed., Lettera sull’Umanismo, Adelphi, Milan, 1995.
  2. ^ Carl Gustav Jung, Psychologische Typen , Rascher & Cie. Verlag, Zurich, 1921; It. ed., Tipi Psicologici, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2016, p. 493.

Off Club

Off Club

Rome, 21 June 2018

Nightclub restaurant/bar of 400 m² on three floor


Specus Corallii

Specus Corallii

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Trapani, 27 August 2016

Sala Laurentina oratory of the Trapani Cathedral


Crepuscular Green

Crepuscular Green

Mondrian Suite, Rome, 29 April 2014

Venue for receptions and parties


House of Dust

House of Dust

Rome, 16 April 2013

Apartment in Ludovisi district


Purple House

Purple House

Pembrokeshire, 1 June 2011

Dwelling on three levels in Pembrokeshire


House of Twelve

House of Twelve

Melbourne, 1 May 2009

Dwelling on three levels in the suburb of Kew


House for Wallpaper

House for Wallpaper*

Neues Museum, Berlin, 6 April 2009

House for the Wallpaper* architects directory


Concrete Moon House

Concrete Moon House

Melbourne, 1 November 2008

Dwelling on three levels in the suburb of Kew


House of Convexities

House of Convexities

Barcelona, 1 March 2008

Dwelling on two levels in the countryside


Vaulted House

Vaulted House

Parma, 1 January 2008

Dwelling on two levels in Felino’s countryside