[…] The line of the horizon is not only the contact point for the leap but it is also, first of all, the littoral, the vertical littoral that separates in an absolute way the \\\'empty\\\' from the \\\"full\\\". Paul Virilio, La vitesse de libération, É.Galilée, 1995
The aim of this studies is to assert the role of architecture in representing the dichotomy between sky and earth : the architecture always intervenes upon this line: the horizon. Inserted into this dialect, it transforms both elements and re-articulate the limit. It is clear that each architectural intervention operates with more or less consciousness regarding this argument.
Skyscape research is based on the active relation between architecture and sky and on their critical interaction: on one hand the ground materiality from which the architecture rises and on the other the untouchable, mutating, dynamic presence of the sky.
During the process of dematerialization, architecture shifts from the concept of “object” to a system of “layers”.
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The sky is a component of the undefined matter of architecture, which develops into one of the three-dimensional layers of the system . Architecture transforms because of its interaction with dynamic of the sky.
The approach is based on the immediacy of intuitive process, where, the key reading of the hypothesis is referred to the perceptive level . The intervention stress the balance and correlation between material and immaterial, nature and artificial, architecture and sky within a shift of conventions.
The tectonic is neglected and is replaced by openness that is achieved trough the verticality of the architecture. The reference is addressing towards the sky that becomes filtered and incorporated within- and as a ‘material’ of architecture.
Skyscape research moves the discourse out of architecture itself and, without contradicting the ‘firmitas’ meaning, refers the discourse to the sky with its variability between night and day, under its physical and metaphysical aspect.
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