this is a very good idea, and it expresses in a very simple manner the upper/lower cities' tension by drawing the limit between the two cities on Solomon street which becomes now a real urban spine. It is a very powerful urban gesture. Now you have a very large flat piazza/parvis which you have to deal with - what to do with this surface and how to shape its interior. I think that the spine idea has no role here to play in the structure. This move should have a lot of consequences on the inner space, which becomes now a kind of "horizontal" monument. And of course, if we mention the idea of the bunker, we may add to this Virilio's concept of "esthetique de la disparition". How to announce this dissappearence? how to express this double meaning of this flat object (on the upper level tourists from the white city, on the lower level worshippers from africa and the philipines)? how to shape this new flat gaze to god?
this is a very good idea, and it expresses in a very simple manner the upper/lower cities' tension by drawing the limit between the two cities on Solomon street which becomes now a real urban spine. It is a very powerful urban gesture.
השבמחקNow you have a very large flat piazza/parvis which you have to deal with - what to do with this surface and how to shape its interior. I think that the spine idea has no role here to play in the structure. This move should have a lot of consequences on the inner space, which becomes now a kind of "horizontal" monument.
And of course, if we mention the idea of the bunker, we may add to this Virilio's concept of "esthetique de la disparition". How to announce this dissappearence? how to express this double meaning of this flat object (on the upper level tourists from the white city, on the lower level worshippers from africa and the philipines)? how to shape this new flat gaze to god?