Art doesn’t teach anything except the sense of life. HENRY MILLER
Building for environmental hazards has always been a necessary truth within the discipline of architecture. When it comes to creating durable structures, function all too often overrides form for reasons of limited resources, ease, and practicality. The Project will focus on the ability to recover from natural disturbances through adapting the architecture to nature. It is a study about the derivatives of architecture from nature’s alterations and its affinity to the natural system. Arte Sella showcases a distinct experience combining the mountains, forests, and landscape in one framework where works of naturalist artists are traced. Those works symbolize a congruous symbiosis with nature and, therefore, will eventually degrade to coalesce with nature. Today, Arte Sella is considered one of the most valuable cultural centers of our contemporary living. Our objective is to revive the regretfully abandoned artistic center and explore ways to implement social strategies. Our approach aims at encouraging people to frequent the presently deserted place due to the calamity it has suffered from. We will design a sentimental and sensorial journey through the landscape that evokes meditation, contemplation, and self-reflection. The architecture will speak to different landscapes and narrate a tangible description of the place. The reason is not the destination, but the journey itself. In this simple truth, visitors will find a peace of mind. The behavior of the landscape inspired resilient approaches. The enamoring beauty of the landscape, which experiences a process of decay by the wrath of time, compels one to think of the ephemerality of life, a quality rendered with fragility and impermanence. But, the decay is antithetical to growth, the evolution of nature, a quality rendered with ambition and perseverance. Architecture is the journey of growth, decay, and time.
