« De cet œuf, un dieu surgira, qui organisera le chaos, en donnant naissance aux êtres différenciés la volonté libre... Read More
« De cet œuf, un dieu surgira, qui organisera le chaos, en donnant naissance aux êtres différenciés la
volonté libre de coexister dans diverses cités.
« From this egg, God will rise and organize chaos giving birth to cities with diverse beings »
The artwork premises the notion that the germ of architectural and urban manifestation is raised
from the symbolic and universal form, the Ovum.
The city is a living organism that animate the matrix of its external envelope through internal vitality.
Each civilization has emancipated from it by its context, its beliefs its discoveries, following similar
basics, the needs remaining the same centuries after centuries. The city is so described under the
shape of the Ovum to express that idea. The egg is a unique and common symbol to all civilizations
representing the birth of the world and the emergence of diversity on earth.
The egg also appears as one of the symbols of the periodic renewal of nature. Urban patterns are
repeated, cities are reborn from the ashes…. the city thus follows the cyclical renewal of man in his
needs of memory creations, his urban and environmental ideologies become universal.
The egg also appears as one of the symbols of the periodic renewal of nature. Urban patterns are
repeated, cities are reborn from the ashes…. the city thus follows the cyclical renewal of man in his
needs of memory creations, his urban and environmental ideologies become universal.
The cross engraved in the ovum symbolises the creative power and devastating also of humankind,
that is to say its believes. The weight of the believes inflect on human renewal in its city, which is the
head, the place and the subject of all transmutations.
In conclusion , the viewer (assimilated with the lower right corner signature) integrate the principle
that the urban ovum deliver the germ, where the hatch of the character, its identity is taking place.
The ovoid city becoming the origin of spatial development, urban, temporal and biologic