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Urban Shelter
“Architecture
arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those
sentiments more precise.” (1)
“Only a very small part of architecture belongs to
art: the tomb and the monument.”
Adolf Loos.
Remembering Daniel Burnham’s words for his proposal
for the Chicago Plan: “The Lakefront by right belongs to
the people. "Not a foot of its shores should be appropriated to the
exclusion of the people.” For us, the site should be a public space and a part
of the lakefront parks system.
The massive hole reminds
us strongly to primitive underground constructions in different places of the
world like China or Africa, as well as landscape works by contemporary artist.
What is the character of a monumental void?
For
the philosopher Mirce Eliade, the sacred is made manifest through hierophanies:
a stone, a tree, a discontinuity in the natural landscape or an alteration of
the continuity of nature by human. The man builds
the sacred place by establishing that spatial discontinuity or giving meaning
to the objects found therein. Our intention is not to construct a building for
religious worship, but to affirm that the interaction with a void this big, has
space and phenomenological features that allude to the sacred and thus produce
emotions that our senses can recognize as universal.
We propose a garden
cemetery where people can go for peace and quiet. An enclosure surrounded by
water and domesticated nature within the city, which is capable of producing
intense spatial emotions for people seeking a moment of serenity and
loneliness. Our intention is to crate a cemetery as a “city of dead” which, as
in most ancient traditions, is a faithful remembrance of the city of the
living.
If we consider that the
most important architectural typology of the city of Chicago is the tower; why
not to build a tower for the dead?
arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those
sentiments more precise.” (1)
“Only a very small part of architecture belongs to
art: the tomb and the monument.”
Adolf Loos.
Remembering Daniel Burnham’s words for his proposal
for the Chicago Plan: “The Lakefront by right belongs to
the people. "Not a foot of its shores should be appropriated to the
exclusion of the people.” For us, the site should be a public space and a part
of the lakefront parks system.
The massive hole reminds
us strongly to primitive underground constructions in different places of the
world like China or Africa, as well as landscape works by contemporary artist.
What is the character of a monumental void?
For
the philosopher Mirce Eliade, the sacred is made manifest through hierophanies:
a stone, a tree, a discontinuity in the natural landscape or an alteration of
the continuity of nature by human. The man builds
the sacred place by establishing that spatial discontinuity or giving meaning
to the objects found therein. Our intention is not to construct a building for
religious worship, but to affirm that the interaction with a void this big, has
space and phenomenological features that allude to the sacred and thus produce
emotions that our senses can recognize as universal.
We propose a garden
cemetery where people can go for peace and quiet. An enclosure surrounded by
water and domesticated nature within the city, which is capable of producing
intense spatial emotions for people seeking a moment of serenity and
loneliness. Our intention is to crate a cemetery as a “city of dead” which, as
in most ancient traditions, is a faithful remembrance of the city of the
living.
If we consider that the
most important architectural typology of the city of Chicago is the tower; why
not to build a tower for the dead?
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