Como Cathedral

Try to imagine if in the pixels imprinted on the icon you could glimpse the image of the Como Cathedral... no longer a facade that offers itself to the gaze, but a surface that holds and refracts, as if every detail were a point of resistance to the fading of time.Marble would cease to be a compact material to become vibration: a stratified skin in which each incision does not decorate, but interrupts continuity, creating micro-thresholds in which the gaze stops and starts again.The facade cannot be read from the front, but by accumulation: a system of solids and voids, of reliefs and recesses that do not build a hierarchy, but a density.Nothing really dominates, yet everything contributes to a balance that is not static, but continually renegotiated by light.Inside, the space does not open up, it is stratified.The naves do not lead, but envelop, and the light filtered through the windows does not illuminate, but segments the air, making it almost tangible.Each step does not simply cross, but enters into a sequence of perceptions that overlap without canceling each other.And above, the dome does not close collects.