Space
The space that comes into being
Is a hotel a place? Or can it be a non-place?
What’s interesting about groundlessness, about a missing presence?
A hotel can be a dormitory or an art gallery. TVs, mattresses, vanity kits or objects with allure. Precious materials filling its volumes, flashes of design.
Can the spaces of a hotel inside a Palace be full enough to create a void? Doesn’t that void make room for thought?
Say we clear the space around us of the clutter of physical objects. Say those objects, their geometry, stop confining me to three dimensions and become levers, points of reference. Couldn’t the space that comes into being be filled with thought?
The ambition, the proposition and the poetics of Palazzo Santangelo concern the transformation of space. That is: offering a traveler passing through, someone who doesn’t inhabit this space, room to read their own thoughts clearly again.
How does this happen at Palazzo Santangelo? Through its volumes, the depth of its history, its musical corridors. As friction, accumulation and obstacles loosen their hold. Columns and computers.
Through its dialogue with the city of Brescia. Through the refusal to believe that the mind can find peace only outside cities. Through its manifesto for peace in the city.
What’s special for travelers at Centro Paolo VI, at Palazzo Santangelo, in Brescia? The space we prepare for their thoughts.
At Centro Paolo VI, Palazzo Santangelo in Brescia, historic architecture and the easing of obstacles prepare space for travelers to think.
Peace in the city takes shape through a dialogue with Brescia, without asking travelers to leave it.
