Crowds of people. Mechanistic movements. Light.
The flight.
The airport.
The “solemnity” before each flight.
Before something not normal.
The flight.
It is about the creation of multi temple in the airport Eleutherios Venizelos, in the region that is fixed by the building of tower of control and the main volume of airport (space of arrivals and departures). It contains the temples of five basic religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islamism, and Christianity), the courtyard of this holy spaces and a space of entry with the form of square - courtyard.
The creation of a multitemple in the airport has as aim, beyond its operation as temple, the installation of an area capable to form an environment, which characteristics function additionally to those of the airport: the movements, the light, the people, the materials, "convert" the time and the region of this intervention. It is a space of peacefulness, of calm capable to relax the knot of abdomen before the flight - the last glance of αtraveler to reality -.
The form of multitemple is presented in the airport with the form of a closed system, a box: the "box of religions". The "different" space is closed in, leaving small cracks of view and communication. This introversion does not aim at the alienation and removal of its interior from the airport but on the contrary has as target the creation of a wish of entry in its interior and the creation of limits that will encompass the temples.
The “Box of Religions”:
The entry in the internal area of the multitemple is succeeded with a ramp which connects the airport (more concretely the space of departures that it is allowed in travelers with ticket) with the interior of the "box". Entering in it, the ramp leans and softly leaves the traveler in the first part of multitemple, which is characterized by the material absence of temples and functions as a square or a courtyard. Constitute a transition region from social to holy. A kind of space -filter that tries to releases the functional attributes of airport preparing the traveler for his course in the temples or offering his calm. The internal space of the "box" is constituted by falls back of his exterior wrapping, a wrapping that creates the courses, the ways, the void and the constructed areas. The traveler is transported more deeply, to the temples through opening ups of his falls back walls. The temples are structured in two parts of a building total that become autonomous through slots and openings. Without particular characteristics in the exterior rind that would determine the religion of each temple, they are ordered in the space taking into consideration their historical time relation. There common skin and there structure – which is characterized from the pursuit of orientation –unify notionally and practical the space of religious human, change it from a simple area with temples to a multitemple. There are presented to be the only limits, the “uses” of a courtyard, of an un-constructed free area for the religious human. The search of the right temple is being inherent in the area like a part of a holy game, started from the courtyard and end in the interior of temples.
