Vesper No. 7 | Sky | Fall-Winter 2022
Sara Marini
Sky
Keywords
Project and sky, artifices, the vault of
heaven, architecture and physics
The text brings together and emphasises some
useful experiences in looking at the sky as a space for architectural design
between physics, art, philosophy and ecology. A place of concrete
phantasmagorical designs, enacted by clouds and birds, and a space of
inspiration for mystical-metaphysical dreams, the celestial dome is read in the
work of architecture as a gravitational mass but also as an aspiration and a
purpose. Defined as a “fifth prospect” it shares with the earth
plots of pollution and regulatory perimeters. The sky is a right, often also a
place of competition: colossi are erected to challenge its dimension. From the
sky comes the flood, the apocalypse, in the sky we can be in orbit, referring
to the sky we can design cosmogonies. Earthly architecture is not powerless
against this infinity, we need only raise our heads to see artifices, measured
and constructed architectures, structures that challenge the beauty of the
mystery of the celestial vault, announced judgments or perspective illusions to
propose depths not present.
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