LOCATED IN RURAL ITALY IS THE MASTERPIECE OF VENETIAN ARCHITECT CARLO SCARPA: A COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT WHICH SERVES AS BURIAL GROUND TO THE BRION FAMILY. NOT LONG AFTER ITS COMPLETION, SCARPA WAS BURIED HERE HIMSELF – WITHIN HIS OWN ARCHITECTURE, WITHIN HIS IDEA.

UPON THE MOMENT OF ARRIVAL TO THE SITE, EMPHASISED BY A JOURNEY INTO REMOTENESS, ONE ENTERS A COMPLEX, LAYERED SPATIAL COMPOSITION – LARGELY IMPENETRABLE BY MIND AND LOGIC. IN AN ORCHESTRATED SEQUENCE OF MOMENTS ONE IS GUIDED THROUGH THE UNFOLDING PROGRESSION OF SPACES BY A SYNCOPATED RHYTHM OF LIGHT AND SHADOW. DISJOINTED TECTONIC FORMS SUBMERGED IN WATER DEMATERIALIZE AND ASSUME FORM AT ONCE. SUGGESTED IS NOT A WHOLE BUT A CONTINUUM – A ‘BEYOND’ IN A FUSION OF IDEA AND MATERIAL MANIFESTATION, OF CONCEPTION AND CONSTRUCTION.

IT IS A PLACE OF SILENCE AND REFLECTION. AN ODE TO THE TRANSITORINESS OF THINGS. IN A SYMPHONY OF THE ELEMENTS, A RARE, SPIRITUAL QUALITY OF POETIC IMAGINATION – WONDER, IS EVOKED, AS ONE TRANSITIONS WITHIN THIS ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSFORMATION.