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6600 Locarno
Livio Vacchini uses ritual, cadence, rhythm and ethics for his design. There is a form of ritual in the way a project is revised and traced back from time to time. Starting from a "mother project", ethically and theoretically, the design phases follow a research path that always takes up the same reasoning and leads to a higher precision of expression. The result is always new and fundamentally different from the previous one and yet so similar. With each change, the parent project is enriched with new rules, theory and ethics; it is perfected by leaving behind errors and inaccurate assessments. Aesthetics is the result of this ancient ritual in which the thought expressed in its purity reveals its own beauty, which does not need to be created because it already is. The first project is therefore always the first project in the history of mankind. The continuous and constant dialogue with the architecture of the past allows today's architecture to approach perfection and therefore beauty.
Dialogue means criticism. Criticism means extreme admiration; that admiration that allows you to extract from a masterpiece the thought, to express it in a cleaner tone. Clean thinking is what makes us perceive a work as "classical" or "old" because it expresses its essence. Light, structure and space then find the wise balance that can only be achieved in centuries of observation by the human mind. Each material has its own behavior in light, gravity and matter. A molten and shaped material does not have the same soul as a composite material, which is still different from a complex material that is poured into formwork. The properties of each material must be expressed and brought to light. Only in this way can the material itself exploit the maximum of its possibilities and find the structure that suits it best in ever more spectacular performances. Humans have always wanted to experience the thrill of the limit. Boundary means truth, perfection. Perfection and truth are a source of emotions.
Technology and technology allow humans to reach ever higher and more distant frontiers to experiment with the construction of ever more precise and exciting spaces. For man, therefore, the construction of a space means directing light into a space through materials and structures that, pushed to their limits by technology, strive for perfection and therefore for truth and beauty throughout the history of mankind.
