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06.1995
Berlin (Germany)
Imaginary Study
Stefan Maria Rother Drawing Collection
'If we find a tumulus in a wood which is 2m long and 1m wide arranged with a blade in the shape of a pyramid, we frown and something inside us says: someone is buried here. This is architecture.' Adolf Loos
A black hole is a collapsing star, a hostile space in our universe. The cemetery in a black hole ratifies this notion by employing architecture as the vehicle for exploring the space. In this case architecture is defined by Loos's metaphor of the void .
The black hole is used as a site to explore the poetic values of architecture and resign any formal preconception of the practice. The program, a cemetery and the site, a black hole are one. Architecture is thus symbolized as the individual occupying the space, in this case the traveling soul. One may only experience the black hole by accepting the journey of the dead by passing the gateway between one life and the next.
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