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The Temple of Silence

Torrenieri, Siena
Space research
2025

The Temple of Silence was born from a primary need: to restore to human beings a state of perception.
Not as a symbolic refuge, but as a concrete experience of space, time and light.


It is not conceived as a building or as a monument.
It is a slow journey, in which the body finds its rhythm and the mind realigns itself with the natural duration of things.


Architecture is built as a sequence of thresholds.
Compressed passages, horizontal openings, waterways, and curved walls accompany the movement without imposing it. Each passage slows, suspends, disarms. It is the body that determines the tempo of the experience, not the form.


Light is the central material of the work.
It enters from above like a measured cut, gliding over opaque surfaces, settling on curves without ever making a spectacle of itself. It doesn't illuminate: it regulates. Its slow metric transforms space into a silent measure of time.


The materials are reduced to the essentials.
Pale, porous surfaces absorb light, retain shadows, and convey a subtle yet stable perception. Water, present as a horizontal plane, is not decoration but subtraction: it allows light to duplicate itself and the human presence to be reflected without asserting itself.


The Temple does not seek sight, but breath.
The openings don't frame the landscape: they let it in. Interior and exterior are not opposites, but rather perceptual continuity. Forest, sky, and water participate in the work without being represented.


Everything is measure.
There's no spectacular gesture, no iconic intention. Build little, build only what's necessary: this is his ethos.


The result is a space that does not ask to be contemplated, but inhabited.
A place where silence isn't the absence of sound, but a return to primal perception. Where thought slows and the body begins to see again.


The Temple of Silence is a response to a time that has lost the depth of experience.
Not as a promise, but as a possible condition.

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