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

Off Club
Rome, 21 June 2018
Nightclub restaurant/bar of 400 m² on three floor

Specus Corallii
Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Trapani, 27 August 2016
Sala Laurentina oratory of the Trapani Cathedral

Crepuscular Green
Mondrian Suite, Rome, 29 April 2014
Venue for receptions and parties

House of Dust
Rome, 16 April 2013
Apartment in Ludovisi district

Purple House
Pembrokeshire, 1 June 2011
Dwelling on three levels in Pembrokeshire

House of Twelve
Melbourne, 1 May 2009
Dwelling on three levels in the suburb of Kew

House for Wallpaper*
Neues Museum, Berlin, 6 April 2009
House for the Wallpaper* architects directory

Concrete Moon House
Melbourne, 1 November 2008
Dwelling on three levels in the suburb of Kew

House of Convexities
Barcelona, 1 March 2008
Dwelling on two levels in the countryside

Vaulted House
Parma, 1 January 2008
Dwelling on two levels in Felino’s countryside