ET IN ARCADIA EGO. Performing Music as Architecture

Katerina Michalopoulou; Antonis Touloumis

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6146

Authors

Katerina Michalopoulou Athens School of Fine Arts
Architect. Diploma/Msc at National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). PHD candidate (NTUA) and postgraduate student in Digital Arts (A.S.F.A.). She teaches at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She has participated and has been presented with awards in international and nationwide competitions, conferences and architectural project exhibitions.
Antonis Touloumis Athens School of Fine Arts

Architect. Diploma and Msc in Architectural Engineering at National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). PHD candidate of NTUA and postgraduate student in Digital Arts of Athens School of Fine Arts. He has participated and has been presented with awards in international and nationwide competitions, conferences and architectural project exhibitions

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6146

Keywords:

Architecture, Music, Rhythm, Ritual, Burial

Abstract

Are we capable of performing a ritual movement towards a tomb? Is it possible for a tomb which typically expresses the resting body, to inscribe simultaneously the movement of the living? Through our project we offer for consideration the idea of designing tombs that will act as music scores, that is, elements that prescribe our movement towards them giving it a ritual sense. Different cardiac pulses that correspond to different ages are linked to music rhythms and finally become rhythms of stepping. The idea of designing temporal experience through architectural elements refers to the design of burial chambers as well. Based on the idea of simultaneity, they are designed as parallel burials. Circular patterns define our design since they have always been related with ritual moves. Furthermore they are linked to underground hydraulic structures such as wells.

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