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the story BehInd the cave
“looking at the stars” is a very simple and pure action by itself,
so the first question that came to my mind was “how could
architecture contribute to such innate performance?”.
the ideas of shelter and protection came soon, as well as the
framing of a stage such as the universe, in order to highlight its
own value.
the cave is therefore the utmost conception of the mentioned
concepts.
taking it to the limit, there was also the experience of going
down which would emphasize the journey and contrast the act
of looking up. We can find arguments for that in the site as well,
where the section works for any height chosen because of the
open field beside and also the gravel would make the procedure
easy.
the shape of the plan was given by the flows in the corner,
coming from the path alongside the field, so the project would
pick up the people and soak them into the concavity. there they
would be guarded to observe the stars.
In order to choose the section, the spiral was standing out
because of this property of “coming from a close space and
opening towards the exterior” and it also transmitted the foetus
feeling; checking its qualities once working with the human
scale, it turned into a quite convincing option which would
embrace the user.
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1 Poligonalisation of the spiral
2 former model of the cave
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