| Solar Park South - International Online - project 66 of 201 |
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| gianfranco neri (italy), giovanni nocenzi (italy), giovanni spampinato (italy), ettore rocca (denmark), federico verderosa (italy), rosario testaì (italy), francesca schepis (italy) |
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| Tzimtzum is an old Hebrew word used by the mystical kabbalistic thinker Isaac Luria in the 16th century. He asked: how could God create the world if he occupied the whole? Where could the universe be born if God was omnipresent? His answer was: in the beginning God had to withdraw in order to make room for the world. Tzimtzum means to withdraw. The first divine act was not to create the world, but to make room for it. The supreme architect did not begin by moulding but by giving the gift of space. In the Parco Solare Sud we want to repeat the tzimtzum, the withdrawal that gives space. However, this repetition is not nostalgic since the origin is also the final act, the point of arrival. Tzimtzum must be both the first and the last architectural act, the one that makes room even for the ruin, and thus allows that the series of architectural acts can become a story. This process also has a sound: you can listen at http://digisign.altervista.org/music/Chorale.mp3 |