It is with Borca di Cadore behind myself that I immediately re-thought those empty spaces of the Colonia (Eng.: summer camp building) as the inevitable result of a completed process of transformation, an hatched exuvia on the ground as witness of the completed transition into adulthood. Regarding Gellner’s architectures I’ve remembered how, inside the building, I felt comforted by the studying of such peculiar and hostile volumes, the aggregating function of the shapes is still active and the architectures remain authoritative and decisive. Despite all this, the building seems suspended in history. I believe that the reactivation of this critical body embedded in the mountain must go through a reflection on the first percepted impressions, through the recovery of those sensations with no mediation which provokes the granting of way into a new and different territory. It is in this phase of perceptive intensification that the space gains meaning. Perceiving what’s to come and getting ready to listen, with the intention of file a testimony and not to give information.

Fabio Roncato