The Coral Cave is a refuge from the world. A grotto where love can still happen. The place where the city regains its sacral dimension that binds those who were to those who are.

© Antonino Cardillo

Architects: Antonino Cardillo

Location: 91100 Trapani, Province of Trapani, Italy

Area: 260.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Antonino Cardillo

Clients: Gaspare Gruppuso (Cattedrale di Trapani)

Specials Thanks : Cristofaro Anile

© Antonino Cardillo

The Coral Cave is a refuge from the world. A grotto where love can still happen. The place where the city regains its sacral dimension that binds those who were to those who are.
© Antonino Cardillo

The Coral Cave explores a Pre-Modern idea: when architecture was imagination and the city was the labyrinth of memory. That labyrinth renewed every day with the caresses of our eyes; that speaks to us, mutedly, of lives lived. The image is the place where the dead speak to the living. Where it confirms the idea of life as permanence and tradition. Without this silent dialogue, the city dies; entertainment and alienation take over neutralizing the subversive potential of love.

Plan

The Coral Cave speaks of the sacred that comes from the sea. The cadence of space recounts the allegories of beauty and metamorphosis...