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THIS PROJECT WAS BORN AFTER A RESEARCH ON THE METHAFORS BUILT BY ETTORE SOTTSASS IN 1972 ACCOMPANIED BY AN IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ON THE ARCHITECTURE ARCHETYPES AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF LANZAROTE.

THE CONSTRUCTION IS A FENCE THAT RE-PROPOSES, BOTH IN PLANIMETRIC FORM AND IN ITS MEANING, THE SACRED ARCHITECTURES THAT WERE BUILT IN THE ISLAND CENTURIES AGO. IN THIS CASE THE AIM OF THE TRANFORMATION IS THAT OF CHANGING THE PLACE IN A SOFT AND SUPERFICIAL WAY, STARTING FROM A NATURAL AND PRISTINE TERRITORY - THAT FOR THIS ASPECT IS OFTEN A TOURISTIC ATTRACTION. USING NOTIONS FROM THE INTERIORS’ KNOWLEDGE, THE MAIN IDEA WAS BUILDING SOMETHING THAT NO ONE EVER EXPECTED TO SEE, MAKING PEOPLE WHO VISIT THE PLACE HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE OF IT. THE FOCUS IS TO PLAY OUT TRANSFORMATION TO MODIFY THE FUNCTION OF THE AREA FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. IN FACT, THE CONSTRUCTION HAD TO BE EPHEMERAL: COMPLETELY REMOVABLE, TO BRING THE PLACE BACK TO ITS COMPLETE NATURAL STATE AFTER 48 HOURS.

THE CONSTRUCTION IS ITSELF A RESEARCH ON THE INTERIORS: A SMALL-SCALE PROJECT [1:1], WHICH WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD WITH OUR OWN HANDS. THERE IS A LOT OF ATTENTION TO DETAILS, MATERIALS AND PERCEPTIONSTHAT ARE CREATED BY LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. THE DESIGN OF THE PROJECT WAS DEVELOPED IN MILAN, DURING THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO OF INTERIORS, WHILE THE CONSTRUCTION TOOK PLACE IN LANZAROTE, ON A JOURNEY MADE IN NOVEMBER 2018. THE LIFE OF THE INSTALLATION LASTED FROM 18 TO 20 NOVEMBER, A PERIOD AFTER WHICH THE PLACE HAS BEEN BROUGHT BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE AND ALL THE MATERIALS USED HAVE BEEN DONATED TO THE DANCE THEATRE OF LANZAROTE.

< THE PRIMORDIAL LANDS OF LANZAROTE RESOUND WITH ANCIENT PRACTICES. IN ANCIENT TIMES, THE INDIGENOUS TRIBES OF THE ISLAND EXPRESSED THEIR VISION OF THE SACRED THROUGH THE ARCHETYPE OF THE EFQUENE, A RITUAL FENCE WITH A CENTRAL STRUCTURE, WHICH WAS PLACED AROUND AN IDOL, DEFINING A MAGICAL AND PROTECTED TERRITORY. THE MEMORY OF THIS ANCESTRAL RITE ALLOWS US TODAY TO REFLECT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN, LANDSCAPE AND TIME -INEVITABLE HORIZONS OF A CONTEMPORARY REFLECTION ON THE DIVINE >

THE REGION OF THE MATABURROS, MAJESTIC AND FRAGILE BASALTIC ROCKS - SUBJECT TO WIND EROSION, BECOME THE IDEAL SPACE TO EXPRESS THE THEME OF THE PROJECT. THE FRAGILITY OF THIS MYTHICAL LAND IS INTERPRETED AS A METAPHOR FOR A CONDITION TO BE PRESERVED, ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT AN IMMINENT FUTURE IN WHICH THE CONSUMPTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES WILL MARK A NEW ERA FOR THE PLANET. THE SACRED FENCE CLOSES AROUND ONE OF THESE ROCKS DESTINED TO DISAPPEAR: ANOTHER SPACE IS SHAPED, MADE PENETRABLE THROUGH 12 TRILITHIC PORTALS. AT THE CENTER, AS AN ICON OF A FRAGILE DIVINITY, AN EGG IS PLACED, AS AN ANTITHESIS, A TOTEMIC AND ANCESTRAL ELEMENT, WHICH REFERS TO FERTILITY, LIFE AND THE ETERNAL. THE INTERPENETRATION OF THE TWO SYMBOLS TIGHTENS THE QUESTION AND MULTIPLIES THE POSSIBLE ANSWERS.