Finding Hy-Brasil: The Gateway Between Reality And Unreality

Through Irish history, different spiritual demands in specific historical moments impacts on the legends of Hy-Brasil. In turn, the stories of Hy-Brasil reflects the history of Ireland through its possible position, appearances, items events, viewpoints gateways and monuments. The project is to use the history of Hy-Brasil, a mystical island of...

The Sublime Light and the Heterotopia. A Cistercian Cloister

An architectural perspective, on the relation between the Sublime and the Heterotopia and the role light plays therein. Eventually the notion of the f?stopos arises: a place connected and elevated to ‘the other place’ by light. The f?stopos is used as ‘theoretical inspiration’ for the design of my graduation project: a monastery for the...