We are thrilled to cooperate with MOR-architects, who have been granted the 1st award in the architecture competition about the New Archeological Museum of Sparta and to undertake the daylighting design (see here) of its central atrium, constituting the spiritual core around which the elevated museum exhibition is arranged, assuming its lofty essence.
It is a highly intriguing challenge to fulfil the mission of “sculpting daylight” in this culturally specific space.
It suffices to replace the word “time” with “light” in the representative phrase of Andrei Tarkofsky to grasp, what is at stake here.
“Just as a sculptor takes a lump of marble, and, inwardly conscious of the features of his finished piece, removes everything that is not part of it—so the film-maker, from a ‘lump of time’ made up of an enormous, solid cluster of living facts, cuts off and discards whatever he does not need, leaving only what is to be an element of the finished film, what will prove to be integral to the cinematic image”