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Rossa, Switzerland
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Other Projects by Davide Macullo Architects
Temple of Thought
Rossa, Switzerland
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
THE TEMPLE OF THOUGHT
The Temple of Thought aspires to be the first place dedicated exclusively to man's ability to think. It is a place to sit. It is a place to stop even without thinking.
The project envisages the placement of the Temple of Thought in public spaces around the world in order to emphasise the belonging to the human race of all, indiscriminately, beyond the diversity of cultural, religious, geographic, climatic, political, and economic environments.
We have educated and trained ourselves to produce and consume, and we perpetrate this by necessity at a rapid pace, at the limit of the sustainability of our forces, leaving only residual, meagre spaces for the most important activity of our existence: thinking.
We live in a historical moment of the ripening of a distinctive fruit, born from the seed of a long-established belief in accepting as natural our ability to make abstraction from reality, which we absorb primarily through the sense of sight.
Beyond the ideologies and prejudices associated with a world we have saddled with superfluous content, which we still impose on ourselves, and that restrain our human potential in its ability to decipher and synthesise the complexity of our habitat, resides a freshness of thought freed from impediments we ourselves create and from which, thanks to our sublime capacity for abstraction, is good, beautiful and healthy.
This increasingly prominent capacity is the child of a cultural change that began in the modern or mechanical age, sustained by the emergence of an abstract representation of the world, now assimilated and finally accepted as a fundamental part of our daily lives.
The next, more recent historical phase of conceptual elaboration of abstract reality has brought us to the gates of new realities, those of the virtual world, as a direct consequence of an evolution, which I am sure, will be of the most positive and definitive in the life of man on this planet, in harmony with nature.
This embracing object intends to mark and physically signal the importance of devoting time to the preciousness of human thinking, to make us alert and aware that our quality of life, our survival and choice of priorities to follow in life, are linked to the quality of the thoughts we allow ourselves to elaborate.
In each place, the material used for the construction of this temple-sculpture-seat, will be chosen according to a sustainable and environmentally responsible approach.
It is a project to be realised with artists and architects who are fellow friends of the good way of thinking.
CONCEPT
The Temple of Thought perceives and represents space as a physical and spiritual entity, capable of interpreting everyone in the same key, that of humanity.
The project unifies the sense of life and deletes every cultural, religious, climate and politician difference. It responds only to one necessity: thinking.
Thinking is a necessity, a faculty, that through the project Temple of Thought stimulates and embraces a sense of freedom intense enough to make abstraction possible.
The mind, experimenting a state of proprioception, becomes conscious about its own body’s state of relaxation, and consequently assumes a conscious introspective state, disconnected from rush and the cold pragmaticism of today’s world.
The Temple of Thought is a banner of abstract thought. It claims the naturalness of humans reflecting on their own existence, which is becoming more and more demonized on behalf of a mechanical productivity, empty of any spirituality.
Our distance from ourselves, from nature and from the cosmos has become abysmal, pushing us to seek connections with our bodies by abusing them, and with our mind by inhibiting them, to the point of losing ourselves.
The Temple of Thought is therefore an invitation to rediscover ourselves, but also to rediscover the power, in a broader perspective, of architecture and art.
It is conceived as a place where humans, as human beings, can return to think and therefore to be. The invitation is direct and genuine, and it is accepted by the visitor who accesses it with an almost physiological acceptance. The sensations that emerge, of wonder and surprise for a place, a space that allows one to get closer to oneself. The uniqueness of these sensations makes the Temple of Thought a sanctuary of the soul, a place to cultivate the genuineness of one's thought, or simply to experience that kind of free, childlike, uninhibited thinking that makes us human.
The Temple of Thought is also the ultimate synthesis of the studio’s thinking: an architecture that constantly seeks nature in all its representations and uses humans as the primary measure. An architecture that wants to express itself through a coordination between arts, human sciences and music, in search for harmony with nature and the cosmos.
It’s a compromise that often sacrifices economic aspects in favor of consciously redefining the sense of inhabiting, reconnecting humans with their own nature.
In this sense, the role of perception, feelings, emotions and sociality becomes fundamental. To make architecture a tool capable of creating spaces connected with human beings, an organic art in harmony with the cosmos, it’s necessary to intervene in terms of impact on psychology, physiology and human behavior.
Therefore, it is necessary to talk about a neuro-adaptive architecture.
The Temple of Thought aspires to be the first place dedicated exclusively to man's ability to think. It is a place to sit. It is a place to stop even without thinking.
The project envisages the placement of the Temple of Thought in public spaces around the world in order to emphasise the belonging to the human race of all, indiscriminately, beyond the diversity of cultural, religious, geographic, climatic, political, and economic environments.
We have educated and trained ourselves to produce and consume, and we perpetrate this by necessity at a rapid pace, at the limit of the sustainability of our forces, leaving only residual, meagre spaces for the most important activity of our existence: thinking.
We live in a historical moment of the ripening of a distinctive fruit, born from the seed of a long-established belief in accepting as natural our ability to make abstraction from reality, which we absorb primarily through the sense of sight.
Beyond the ideologies and prejudices associated with a world we have saddled with superfluous content, which we still impose on ourselves, and that restrain our human potential in its ability to decipher and synthesise the complexity of our habitat, resides a freshness of thought freed from impediments we ourselves create and from which, thanks to our sublime capacity for abstraction, is good, beautiful and healthy.
This increasingly prominent capacity is the child of a cultural change that began in the modern or mechanical age, sustained by the emergence of an abstract representation of the world, now assimilated and finally accepted as a fundamental part of our daily lives.
The next, more recent historical phase of conceptual elaboration of abstract reality has brought us to the gates of new realities, those of the virtual world, as a direct consequence of an evolution, which I am sure, will be of the most positive and definitive in the life of man on this planet, in harmony with nature.
This embracing object intends to mark and physically signal the importance of devoting time to the preciousness of human thinking, to make us alert and aware that our quality of life, our survival and choice of priorities to follow in life, are linked to the quality of the thoughts we allow ourselves to elaborate.
In each place, the material used for the construction of this temple-sculpture-seat, will be chosen according to a sustainable and environmentally responsible approach.
It is a project to be realised with artists and architects who are fellow friends of the good way of thinking.
CONCEPT
The Temple of Thought perceives and represents space as a physical and spiritual entity, capable of interpreting everyone in the same key, that of humanity.
The project unifies the sense of life and deletes every cultural, religious, climate and politician difference. It responds only to one necessity: thinking.
Thinking is a necessity, a faculty, that through the project Temple of Thought stimulates and embraces a sense of freedom intense enough to make abstraction possible.
The mind, experimenting a state of proprioception, becomes conscious about its own body’s state of relaxation, and consequently assumes a conscious introspective state, disconnected from rush and the cold pragmaticism of today’s world.
The Temple of Thought is a banner of abstract thought. It claims the naturalness of humans reflecting on their own existence, which is becoming more and more demonized on behalf of a mechanical productivity, empty of any spirituality.
Our distance from ourselves, from nature and from the cosmos has become abysmal, pushing us to seek connections with our bodies by abusing them, and with our mind by inhibiting them, to the point of losing ourselves.
The Temple of Thought is therefore an invitation to rediscover ourselves, but also to rediscover the power, in a broader perspective, of architecture and art.
It is conceived as a place where humans, as human beings, can return to think and therefore to be. The invitation is direct and genuine, and it is accepted by the visitor who accesses it with an almost physiological acceptance. The sensations that emerge, of wonder and surprise for a place, a space that allows one to get closer to oneself. The uniqueness of these sensations makes the Temple of Thought a sanctuary of the soul, a place to cultivate the genuineness of one's thought, or simply to experience that kind of free, childlike, uninhibited thinking that makes us human.
The Temple of Thought is also the ultimate synthesis of the studio’s thinking: an architecture that constantly seeks nature in all its representations and uses humans as the primary measure. An architecture that wants to express itself through a coordination between arts, human sciences and music, in search for harmony with nature and the cosmos.
It’s a compromise that often sacrifices economic aspects in favor of consciously redefining the sense of inhabiting, reconnecting humans with their own nature.
In this sense, the role of perception, feelings, emotions and sociality becomes fundamental. To make architecture a tool capable of creating spaces connected with human beings, an organic art in harmony with the cosmos, it’s necessary to intervene in terms of impact on psychology, physiology and human behavior.
Therefore, it is necessary to talk about a neuro-adaptive architecture.
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