Hortus Conclusus
περίληψη
abstract
This research thesis examines the timeless need for Architecture to reproduce the supreme bliss of paradise with earthly means. The research process goes through three stages: a study on the concept of paradise, the analysis of its earthly simulations and finally the theoretical case of its de-materialization, meaning its transformation into a virtual object.
The human need to interpret the phenomenon of death reveals the common desire to access a utopian world - a Paradise or Garden of Eden. Although Nature in the Garden of Eden is harmless, in the terrestrial world it carries dangers with man constantly attempting to reconcile with it. The result of this ongoing effort for harmonious coexistence was the Hortus Conclusus or enclosed garden. But by placing this architectural object in different socio-political contexts, it undergoes radical transformations, first being the demystification of Nature.
The impenetrable boundary of the garden was there from the beginning to cut off contact with reality, and when the relationship with reality is positive, then boundary and by extension paradise on earth do not exist! The boundary, however, reappears in the 20th century with Nature taking a secondary role as the new threats are the man-made unknown. Thus emerges the need for isolation, and the creation of an altered type of enclosed garden with the key difference being an emphasis less on experientiality and more on “image”.
By entering the Digital Age, technology ceases to be reliable, and generates real dangers in the material world. Thus, the modern technology dependent human seeks the solution in the de-materialization of everything, thus we are dealing
with the possibility of a complete transition of the enclosed garden into a virtual dimension. That is, a space-non-space, ultimate insulator and escape from reality. I define the new digital Eden, which retains certain archetypal features of the enclosed garden, as Hortus Conclusus Incorporalis; an ironic fusion of human imagination with the possibilities of artificial intelligence. A place of momentary “virtual grounding and asceticism” against the rapid consumption of matter, indeterminate whether this is hell, or heaven.
προοίμιο
περιεχόμενα
1.1.
2.1. Hortus Conclusus
2.2. Το χρονικό του Hortus Conclusus
2.3. Ανατομία
2.4. Αρχέτυπα:
2.5. Αποδόμηση
Hortus Conclusus
3.1.
3.2.
3.3. Hortus Conclusus Incorporalis
εισαγωγή
1.2 / Ο κήπος της Εδέμ
(Lehrman, Earthly Paradise, σ.31).
Εικ. 1 [Αριστερά] Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights,
Εικ. 2 [Κάτω] Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, Λεπτομέρεια
Meinhard,
locus amoenus5 (Meinhard, Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, σ.37-38).
3
(Meinhard, Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, σ.37) 4
(Meinhard, Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights,
Saskia, The Enclosed Garden,
επίγειος παράδεισος
Saskia, The Enclosed Garden,
(Lerhman, Earthly Paradise, σ.31).
2.1 / Hortus Conclusus
(Lerhman, Earthly Paradise, σ.41).
Saskia, The Enclosed Garden,
1 «Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus»
(Gabrielle van Zuylen, Paradise on Earth, σ.11).
Hortus conclusus
Hortus Conclusus
The Enclosed Garden, σ.10).
2.2 / Το χρονικό του
Hortus Conclusus
(Tuplin, Achaemenid Studies, σ.83),
7 Philips Galle,
8 (Πάνω) The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh,
10 David Stronach
Hilary Gopnik,
2.3 / Ανατομία του Hortus Conclusus
Εικ. 14 Mousavi
Stronach,. 2012,
(Lehrman, Earthly Paradise).
Conclusus
(Lehrman, Earthly Paradise).
(Lehrman, Earthly Paradise, σ.36).
(Lehrman, Earthly Paradise, σ.46).
(Κάτω) Lerhman,
(Lehrman, Earthly Paradise,
