Comments on: Panteón Nube by Clavel Arquitectos http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/22/panteon-nube-by-clavel-arquitectos/ architecture and design magazine Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Hercule Poirot http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/22/panteon-nube-by-clavel-arquitectos/comment-page-1/#comment-804653 Hercule Poirot Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:47:22 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=134560#comment-804653 "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." (Plato) Using 'necessity' I meant that I don't see any reason in this context to develop formal or intelectual games in what should be a place of silence and reflection. The optical violence of this construction does not show much respect for inhabitants and visitors of the cemetery. Well, of cours, I cán see a reason. But to me it is not a good one. "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." (Plato)
Using 'necessity' I meant that I don't see any reason in this context to develop formal or intelectual games in what should be a place of silence and reflection. The optical violence of this construction does not show much respect for inhabitants and visitors of the cemetery.
Well, of cours, I cán see a reason. But to me it is not a good one.

]]> By: martini-girl http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/22/panteon-nube-by-clavel-arquitectos/comment-page-1/#comment-804604 martini-girl Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:52:59 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=134560#comment-804604 Hercule - I don't understand your objection to this submission. Asking why the 'necessity' of it is a bit like asking why the necessity of architecture in housing. People commission architects to design houses because they want to live in something unique. Why is this any different? Hercule – I don't understand your objection to this submission.

Asking why the 'necessity' of it is a bit like asking why the necessity of architecture in housing.

People commission architects to design houses because they want to live in something unique. Why is this any different?

]]> By: Zino http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/22/panteon-nube-by-clavel-arquitectos/comment-page-1/#comment-804119 Zino Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:02:29 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=134560#comment-804119 Looks like a beach house, but nothing wrong if that's the afterlife for the lucky stiff who gets to pass eternity in this jaunty abode. Looks like a beach house, but nothing wrong if that’s the afterlife for the lucky stiff who gets to pass eternity in this jaunty abode.

]]> By: Hercule Poirot http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/22/panteon-nube-by-clavel-arquitectos/comment-page-1/#comment-802921 Hercule Poirot Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:02:28 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=134560#comment-802921 (By the way : it's more than twice as big as the neighbours.) I can appreciate contemporary funerary buildings. Just check Pedro Dias here on Dezeen. Seems a little bit more human scale to me. But of course it's not a Pantheon, just a family tomb... (By the way : it's more than twice as big as the neighbours.)
I can appreciate contemporary funerary buildings. Just check Pedro Dias here on Dezeen. Seems a little bit more human scale to me. But of course it's not a Pantheon, just a family tomb…

]]> By: Hercule Poirot http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/22/panteon-nube-by-clavel-arquitectos/comment-page-1/#comment-802916 Hercule Poirot Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:56:45 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=134560#comment-802916 In my opinion making a puzzle of the doors and calling this construction a Pantheon is a joke. You can have a different opinion of course. But explain me what is the necessity of it except to profile yourself as ... As what? The most artistic of the cemetery? The most tasteful of the graveyard? What's next : an extreme make-over of the adjacent graves ? Sponsored by Domus ? In my opinion making a puzzle of the doors and calling this construction a Pantheon is a joke. You can have a different opinion of course. But explain me what is the necessity of it except to profile yourself as … As what? The most artistic of the cemetery? The most tasteful of the graveyard? What's next : an extreme make-over of the adjacent graves ? Sponsored by Domus ?

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