Dome Beyond Its Limits or How Deep Is Your Love

Abstract

This text is a part of tripartite study on the dome – architectural term associated with spherical geometry and sublimity as ontological feature of the form that corresponds methodological instance of absolute space. Morphological capacity of the dome is ex- posed in its etymology, which transposes the architecture of the sky, taking this shape as part of the whole and the whole within. The first of three parts, The Architecture of Dome: Mapping the W/Hole, explores the architectural capacity for geometric materi- alization of the sky in the age of virtual decomposition of shape into function of endless exposure to the unknown. The second text, Architectural Sublime: Dome Above Dome includes symbolic processing of the sublime architectural place, which equally to geo- metric distribution of the dome and linear character of its path determines the univer- sal character of things. The central position of the third part, Dome Beyond Its Limits or How Deep Is Your Love, is given to the sensibility of the shapes questioned from the perspective of archetype, and its radiance becomes the expression of inability to round things up. Instead of beauty and the universal law of proportion, the first becomes the place of eccentricity and tension of personal spatial feeling. Therefore, today, instead of concave feeling for the space above, where historically speaking the dome is its geometric paragon, the position outside of the borders of the projection of the dome is marked by distancing in space and time expressed in increasing numbers.