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Neo-Romance: Ark Architecture of Expectation
All is lost, as we stand in the twilight of the old world we are confronted with fragments, places and theories in ruins; we inhabit neo-romantic spaces, times and architecture, defined at the same time by nostalgia for what we are losing and by heroic explorations towards the unknown. Dealing with continuous cyclical destruction, all architecture is today an attempt at salvation: to bring to life our treasures as a projection towards a future. The loss of conditions of order requires strategies which, by acting in advance and working over lengthy periods of time, manage to save those materials which could be destroyed but at the same time could prove useful for designing a new genesis: all architecture today is an ark. Assuming that our existing artifactual evidence is shattered, the ark can be construed as a ‘radical re-foundation’ before the world undergoes a definitive reset. This essay discusses the figure of the ark and its return to the architectural debate, structuring the argument in a triptych and using authors and experiences from outside the disciplinary field, such as theology and philosophy, which rejoin within the territories of architecture. ‘The return of the ark’ deals with the theoretical foundation of this architecture and its strategy of saving the fragment; ‘fragments’, on the other hand, uses examples taken from architectural literature to consider projects that have already reasoned on the theme of the choice of the treasure and therefore of the values to be carried into the future and which, as fragments themselves, are useful for the design of a ‘brand new testament’ of the project; finally, ‘architecture of expectation’, outlines the fundamental theoretical and design moment of an ark architecture called to suspend time while waiting, in the flood, for better times. The fragments that remained hidden and cultivated are released in the distant future to upset the coordinates of the real, to refound the next land.
Neo-Romance: Ark Architecture of Expectation
All is lost, as we stand in the twilight of the old world we are confronted with fragments, places and theories in ruins; we inhabit neo-romantic spaces, times and architecture, defined at the same time by nostalgia for what we are losing and by heroic explorations towards the unknown. Dealing with continuous cyclical destruction, all architecture is today an attempt at salvation: to bring to life our treasures as a projection towards a future. The loss of conditions of order requires strategies which, by acting in advance and working over lengthy periods of time, manage to save those materials which could be destroyed but at the same time could prove useful for designing a new genesis: all architecture today is an ark. Assuming that our existing artifactual evidence is shattered, the ark can be construed as a ‘radical re-foundation’ before the world undergoes a definitive reset. This essay discusses the figure of the ark and its return to the architectural debate, structuring the argument in a triptych and using authors and experiences from outside the disciplinary field, such as theology and philosophy, which rejoin within the territories of architecture. ‘The return of the ark’ deals with the theoretical foundation of this architecture and its strategy of saving the fragment; ‘fragments’, on the other hand, uses examples taken from architectural literature to consider projects that have already reasoned on the theme of the choice of the treasure and therefore of the values to be carried into the future and which, as fragments themselves, are useful for the design of a ‘brand new testament’ of the project; finally, ‘architecture of expectation’, outlines the fundamental theoretical and design moment of an ark architecture called to suspend time while waiting, in the flood, for better times. The fragments that remained hidden and cultivated are released in the distant future to upset the coordinates of the real, to refound the next land.
Neo-Romance: Ark Architecture of Expectation
Alberto Petracchin (author) / Petracchin, Alberto
2021-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Ark , future , values , fragments , exploration , expectation , refoundation
DDC:
720
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