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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Corpus Intra Muros in Bruneck, Bolzano, Italy by Stefan Hitthaler ArchitekturbüroAugust 4th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Stefan Hitthaler Spaces and objects contain within them the presence of human beings. Human bodies imprint themselves on the very walls between which they live and along which they walk. Landscape can thus be read as a topography of invisible layers left behind by humans.  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer
 Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer So what would happen if we were to inquire after those human traces spaces and objects leave in human beings. The walls would influence the human bodies that had once created them, and the objects form the people who used them.  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer The Art and Science Project Corpus Intra Muros is dedicated to the relationship between spaces, bodies and objects. Its point of departure is the building known as ‘the gunpowder tower’ in Bruneck, in South Tyrol’s Puster Valley.  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer The tower is what we might call a ‘non-place’, because, unlike many other historical buildings, it has no identity of its own; none of its history has been passed down to us, only a number of stories that are associated with it. The tower has become the conduit of a two-sided exploration of the relationship between the human being & the wall: on the one hand an architectural structure permits the merging of human beings with the tower, captured as they are in photographic representations and blown up into a large format on a substrate.  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer Simultaneously, a scientific search is being undertaken to detect the traces of the trails of bodies and their objects in the given spaces. Art and science thus blur the boundaries between human beings and matter, to the point of shifting it completely into the narrative form.  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Christof Theurer  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro  Image Courtesy © Stefan Hitthaler Architekturbüro
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