La distorsión fenomenológica de la montaña. La atmósfera antifrágil en el Hormonorium de Décosterd&Rahm

Abstract

The myth of the mountain as a spiritual and transcendent space has been present in countless religions, beliefs and cosmogonies. The mountain has served as a privileged meeting place between the earthly and the spiritual.  Architecture, since its origins, has emulated this heterotopic condition that represents the sacred space. The mountain atmosphere contains specific conditions of a physicochemical nature, which make the experiences and perceptions of high-altitude spaces acquire their own phenomenology. Through a global view capable of interconnecting behaviors, events and atmosphere, our intuition reveals the relationship between the phenomenological distortions that mountain space generates with the spirituality and mysticism associated with these places. The reconstruction of the alpine atmosphere in the Hormonorium, the Swiss pavilion for the Venice Biennale (2002) by Decosterd&Rahm, allows us to reflect on the spatial conditions of the mountain summits. The mountain atmosphere affects us physiologically, which generates, not only physical reactions and behavior of our body, but also produces changes in mental activity. An anti-fragile atmosphere is a space that improves with disorder, allows us to welcome the indeterminate and generates new unexpected possibilities.