CALAMITY ATELIER
(YAC COMPETITION)

Mount Olympus, Mount Ararat, Mount Sinai. In any culture and religion, mountains have been the place of encounter with the divine. There, where the earth extends to the sky, human beings have always glimpsed a further meaning. The mountain is a mystical place where to be in contact with the invisible, with transcendence. It is the place where human adventures culminate. It is the place where to find answers to the most anguished enigmas. 

In a world where sacred spaces daily erode, mountains are still pure places. They are spaces that are difficult to reach. There, human structures hardly affect ancestral balanc­es that can still generate valuable experiences. Without any doubt, one of those experiences is Arte Sella. 

The storm that hit Arte Sella is not a disaster. It is a natural gift that left behind a naturally artistic and chaotic grid to keep us thinking on what nature needs in order to create its own architecture. The project concept is based on integrating this natural phenomena as an underneath that connects passages, landscape art, indoor and outdoor spaces and all components in full natural - artistic harmony, keeping all project component just to welcome any future unexpected disaster.