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Spazio Sensoriale
Spazio Sensoriale
Hudson, NY, United States
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Other Projects by Fausto Ferrara
Spazio Sensoriale
Hudson, NY, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2006
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Spazio Sensoriale is a Spatial Work by Fausto Ferrara, realized in Hudson, New York, for the Art OMI Foundation.
The Work was conceived as an architectural prototype and inhabitable sculpture, operating at the threshold between architecture, environmental art and perception. It is not a pavilion conceived as an autonomous object, but a spatial device in which body, light, water, matter and movement construct the experience.
Franco Purini describes Spazio Sensoriale as an “inhabitable sculpture” and a “space-situation,” emphasizing how architecture is taken beyond simple function to become pure tectonic articulation and a perceptual field.
The project is structured through sequences of compression and expansion, real and virtual axes, material surfaces, water and variations of light. Space cannot be understood from a single viewpoint: it requires movement, passage and duration. The Work does not present itself as an image to be consumed, but as an experience to be inhabited.
Realized for the Art OMI Foundation, within an internationally recognized context devoted to the relationship between art, architecture and landscape, Spazio Sensoriale represents one of the foundational works in Ferrara’s research into the Inhabitable Work: architecture as a Work capable of overcoming the conventional separation between building, sculpture and perceptual space.
The project has been critically examined by Franco Purini, Philippe Daverio, Elena Liotta and Elisabetta Cristallini, who recognized its experimental, sensory and interdisciplinary character. Cristallini describes it as a spatial prototype capable of altering conventional perception and re-establishing a relationship between human beings, nature and place.
The Work was conceived as an architectural prototype and inhabitable sculpture, operating at the threshold between architecture, environmental art and perception. It is not a pavilion conceived as an autonomous object, but a spatial device in which body, light, water, matter and movement construct the experience.
Franco Purini describes Spazio Sensoriale as an “inhabitable sculpture” and a “space-situation,” emphasizing how architecture is taken beyond simple function to become pure tectonic articulation and a perceptual field.
The project is structured through sequences of compression and expansion, real and virtual axes, material surfaces, water and variations of light. Space cannot be understood from a single viewpoint: it requires movement, passage and duration. The Work does not present itself as an image to be consumed, but as an experience to be inhabited.
Realized for the Art OMI Foundation, within an internationally recognized context devoted to the relationship between art, architecture and landscape, Spazio Sensoriale represents one of the foundational works in Ferrara’s research into the Inhabitable Work: architecture as a Work capable of overcoming the conventional separation between building, sculpture and perceptual space.
The project has been critically examined by Franco Purini, Philippe Daverio, Elena Liotta and Elisabetta Cristallini, who recognized its experimental, sensory and interdisciplinary character. Cristallini describes it as a spatial prototype capable of altering conventional perception and re-establishing a relationship between human beings, nature and place.
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