The Sacred Freespace

Francesco Costanzo (1), Gaspare Oliva (2)
(1) Associate professor, Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, Italy,
(2) Cultore della materia, PhD, Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, Italy

Abstract

Keeping in the background the search for geometric-mathematical exactness, that in different cultures oversees the construction of sacred building and starting from the need to isolate it in order to make its "true form" recognizable, this paper analyzes features and conditions of the spaces of the city where different isolated and formally defined religious buildings coexist, as happens, for example, in Italian squares characterized by opposition between Cathedral and Baptistery. The Campo dei Miracoli in Pisa is assumed as a paradigm of in-between consecrated space in which several isolated buildings determine a tensional space and define a unique and unrepeatable configuration individuated among the multiple possible combinations of positions and architectural figures that is, according to Leibniz, expression of the idea of infinity. This kind of space looks for exactness not through closed forms but through relationships, positions and alignments of standing buildings and its rarefaction is directly connected with the idea of open city dispersed in nature proposed by modern architecture.

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Authors

Francesco Costanzo
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Gaspare Oliva
Costanzo, F., & Oliva, G. (2020). The Sacred Freespace. Resourceedings, 2(3), 201–208. https://doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v2i3.733

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