Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952)
Moretti focused on the question of “form”, and all the related aspects. He aimed especially to demonstrate how extraordinary architectures materialize sequences of spaces in relationship to the paths, to the change of perspective, and to the timing of the journey of an observer.
In the words of Moretti, the parameters coming into play in the analysis of the sequences are the geometrical form, the “quantity of volume”, the density and the “energetic” pressure. He proceeds to describe the single areas which constitute the sequence of each analyzed building, like atriums, naves, access doors, as spaces of expansion or contraction and underlining their alternation. In renaissance buildings, Moretti underlines how the alternation of spaces is given by volumes which maintain the same geometries but vary in size.
In a second moment, the architect remarks that only starting from the latest projects by Michelangelo (San Giovanni dei Fiorentini) or from Borromini’s interiors of San Carlino, the juxtaposition of spatial events is abandoned in favor of a continuous spatiality.
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