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Cathedral of Ischia's Aragonese Castle

This is a project by TERNULLOMELO ARCHITECTS and it is located at Ischia, Italy. There is one image for Cathedral of Ischia's Aragonese Castle.

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Designer's statement

TERNULLOMELO+PARATELIER have been awarded the 3rd prize in the International ideas competition for the spatial reconfiguration of the Cathedral of Ischia's Aragonese Castle in Italy promoted by the Istituto per l’Architettura Mediterranea.

The project proposes a double skin expanded brass cladding that reconstructs the missing shell of the dell’Assunta’s Cathedral and reproposes its original spatial enclosure. This way, the old and the new remain recognizable, maintaining their own identity.

A zenital light drips into the apse confering it an unequivocal sacred dimension. This proposed circular drum, covered with a glass, protects the stuccos from the weather. The light penetrates, it’s disseminated indirectly, in a reflected and mysterious way; more than any other material, it determines the volumetric effects of space, and creates the atmosphere.

The brass structure inspires the visitor to, with his imagination, take part of a mental reconstruction process, thus making him a participant, an actor and not just a spectator.