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 Takehiko Nagakura The Danteum of Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri (1938) Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA 1998, 5'46'' The "Danteum" should have been a building designed in 1938 by two eminent Italian architects, Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri. Today, it is well known for the allegoric organisation of space following Dante's Divine Comedy. Because of Mussolini's decline during World War II, the project has never been realised and thus has become one of the best known never finished modern projects. Advanced computer graphics show a simulation of a walk between materials of the never built monument in via dell'Impero in Rome. A visualisation of daylight shows the sunrays entering into ceiling cracks of "Inferno" room, and the thirty-three glass columns grow toward sky in "Paradiso" room. The architects have investigated on the effective usage of oscillations of space along the trip from the entrance into Inferno, then into Purgatorio and into Paradiso to the empire. The visitors should have experienced a continuous process of space-oscillations between light and darkness, open and closed, and thus also their eyes would have been forced to change continuously the opening of their pupils and the focal distance. The simulation translates this objective of the architects moving constantly the video camera from the entrance to the empire. |
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