The Architectural Trail - San Vito di Altivole, Italy
Journey to the other city: From the cornfields and country road,the work of Carlo Scarpa created
entirely in concrete meets the eye as a walled citadel with the shapes and
sizes of its buildings emerging from inside, defying identification before
countless wanderings within its bounds, on a personal journey with intro-
spective reflection.
The Entrance: The entrance offers an asymmetric facade, closed on the right by a strongly modelled
and on the left by a kind of pillar; providing the two sides with the symbolic features of force on the right and beauty on the left.
The Arcosolium: Folling the indications to turn left on the side of the heart, once past the tunnel/Orphic flute you reach the arcosolium. Under its tensioned vault, decorated
with mosaic tesseras, are kept the sarcophagi of Brion and his wife.
The Parents' Chapel: Half way along the itinerary which leads to the church and set against the wall
to the north lies the parents' chapel, a kind of flat roofed house, rotated 60'
around its longitudinal axis, this makes it look like a hooded building resurfacing through the lifting effect
The Church: Leaving the parents' chapel you enter the portico which leads to the church; the building is in the shape of a cube and stands in the centre of a pool of water containing
processed concrete shapes with the recurring step motif.
Towards the Water Pool: With our backs to the Asolo hills, under the mosiac vault of the married
couple's tomb our gaze turns south, towards the itinerary already covered.
Legend: 1. Proplaea
2. Entrance Hall
3. Spring of water
4. Arcosolium and sarcophagi
5. The Parents' Chapel
6. Chapel
7. Small water pool
8. Cypress garden
9. Tomb of Carlo Scarpa
10. Large water pool
11 Pavillion
12 Access from the road
13 Boundary wall
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