Space+&+Scale


 * ROMAN PANTHEON**

This Masterpiece, designed by an unknown architect, is a perfect example of a relation between scale, context and human perception. Approaching the building from the enclosed streets in Rome, the pedestrian arrives to a huge plaza, perceived like that because of the precedent conditions of the streets. The main building appears in it whole magnificence, inviting the spectator to enter, through a shorter volume which conforms the main entrance. The relation between the entrance volume and the main volume, passing from a lower roof to a huge spherical //cupula// that gives the last touch of majesty to the whole ambient. Letting inside just a ray of light, trough the eye, it changes from hour to hour of the day.

The spaces is divided in general in three sections from the base to the top. The base, preserves the scale of the entrance. A second ring, that contains statues that look at the visitors and change their looks, by the correct use of lightnings and shadows trough the day. A third and last ring with a geometrical theme, with a regular rhythm, approaches little by little to the eye in the sky, enclosing the whole space above you.

At the end, the ideal of its creator is completed, making the human scale insignificant on purpose, below the eye of the gods and their magnificence in comparison with us.