...the compositional approach of the Archivio di Stato has the following objectives: a) a longitudinal architectural organization that, by placing itself as a "isotropic unity of space", connects elements as "man", "city" and "nature" (nature-history) through the rigorous application of spatial techniques of the three figurative arts. b) the functional unity of the three figurative arts, as a consequence of the first objective. The longitudinal section and the plan show the longitudinal development of the form in the building through the iteration of the base sign and the way it shapes and forces other spatial events; rebuilt nature , bases , the  cube , the doric rotunda , towers  in the central part, the  tricora  ( three apsis room ), the great paintings  on the outside walls. In that conception the ground line loses its inevitability and its fatal inflexibility becoming a "logic plan". This logic plan defines two...

[...] Even though quite small, it's the cemetery the real heart of all the interventions (in Santa Severina). Thought as an enclosure containing also the precedent cemetery, it evokes the idea of a more intimate place, a " sancta sanctorum " hidden inside. Here too, the apparent simplification of forms it's the result of clear design intentions: a logic based on contradictions, a barely-there axis of symmetry, the use of circles and arcs, like self references. The entire design oscillates between a clear distinction of elements – clearly identified and autonomous – and a sort of continuity, as if the building was carved out from the hill, emphasized by the slope of the valley and variations in height. This oscillation between " architecture achevée " and " talking architecture "  gives rise to a sort of limbo where all the architectural elements, uninterested in monumentality and eloquence, strive for a more unassuming, barely vibrating ...

picture from G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980, edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma - Città e progetto 1. Collana di Architettura diretta da Francesco Moschini. [...] The complex logic that undergoes these works let see a tension towards formal simplification, where geometry, far from becoming a field of virtuosity, is an element of clarity and order. [...] In this slaughterhouse two elements are simply pulled together, a circular one for the butchery and a square one for the stable: but still those two volumes, so different, exchange important cross references. Blocked in austere closure – even if the circular shape would suggest opening towards landscape – they seem to hold, wrapping it in their intimacy, an extraneous element, turned mythical through history but reduced to a purely domestic use: so they are those two secret, vaguely hinted references t...

picture from G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980, edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma - Città e progetto 1. Collana di Architettura diretta da Francesco Moschini. 3D reconstruction

picture from    G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980,  edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma -   Città e progetto 1.  Collana di Architettura diretta da   Francesco Moschini. 3D reconstruction

picture from    G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980,  edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma -   Città e progetto 1.  Collana di Architettura diretta da   Francesco Moschini 3D reconstruction

picture from    G.R.A.U. isti mirant stella - Architetture 1964-1980,  edited by Kappa / A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, 1981, Roma -   Città e progetto 1.  Collana di Architettura diretta da   Francesco Moschini 3D reconstruction