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Bhumandala The
Earth. The planet of life and intelligence. An exception in the universe we
know. The place we live in. Our natural environment. Bhumandala.
Imagine a great building. Imagine it as the Earth.
Imagine of embracing Earth just by taking a look at it and to gather its
magnificent simplicity. It’s disarming. It expresses the power of the planet
giving shelter to us with an indescribable wonder but also shows its
fragility. With
Bhumandala we can admire the Earth as if we were in space, as if could take
distance from it for a moment, as if we could elevate and somehow get out of
ourselves to watch from the outside, a sort of catharsis from which our
awareness rises. Now
imagine getting close to it. The Earth itself gives origin to the one you
see, its roots, as the ones of a big tree, develop an grow welcoming us
between its branches. A return to the origins of each one of us. We are all
together, we are protected, and we are sheltered. The
world is big, it’s strong and imposing but it’s there, in front of our eyes,
it’s not endless and its boundaries are perceivable. We must always remember
it. Bhumandala
is the perfect reproduction of the globe, a sphere with a 120 meters wide
diameter, lifted 7.5 meters from soil. It appears free and light. It’s the
symbol of a cosmic space with a bend towards new. The
sphere has a perfect shape. Its surface is a totality of points all
equidistant from the center. A conarchical structure. It’s pure, absolutely
symmetric and rational. It represents a condition of energetic equilibrium. The
inside is a primordial egg. Steel meridians unite in the center releasing the
weight at the base of the structure, while big arches in couples confer
balance and power. The ribbing of the meridians, with an arch shape, allows
an optimum use of the static possibilities of materials with notable overall
dimension advantage and inexpensiveness compared to traditional frames. All
the structure, in its complexity of meridians and floors, works together in
an organic way. There are no hierarchical levels. Each part has a task
satisfying a necessity. Each one of them is indispensable to the whole. A
big ellipse brining space and light carves the building as elliptic is the
orbit Earth describes by turning around the sun. Its axes are 50 and 100
meters and the grate emptiness allows viewing the whole volume at all floors.
The circular balconies facing the empty spaces become horizontal distribution
elements. Four
entrances are placed inside two great arches. Going up you can admire the
building from the bottom with uncommonly suggestive perspectives, and you
enter by reaching a vast hall at 20 meters from ground level. Now
we can admire the structure starting from the bottom and growing as a gothic
cathedral following force lines innerving upwards. Several vertical links
distribute the flow of visitors to different points. Each
floor of the building is provided of a substantially free plan and can
therefore be fitted out with extreme flexibility. At the height of the
equator a great volume on a double level becomes a common space, aggregation
area and natural light source from inside. The great sphere is wrapped in a light and transparent skin, permeable to light, carrying the unequivocal traces identifying the surface of our planet and along with that our diversity and our union in a united whole. |
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