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Resources: ‘Nourishing Terrains Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness’ By

Deborah Bird Rose Chapter 4

Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus FIELD CHAPEL

- 2007 – Germany - Interior is black cavity left by burning out 112 tree trunks from concrete casts. - “Composure, self evidence, durability, presence, and integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well” - Design constructed by local farmers who wanted to honour the patron saint Bruder Klaus of the 15th century. - Roof is open to the night stars – weather penetrates the opening making the experience specific to the time of year. - No plumbing, bathrooms, running water, electricity

The experience and silence. Eery sense of a sacred place. Respect for materiality. Gendered rules: “places where men can go but must be quiet, places where they can look but not stare, where they can walk but not camp, and then there are places where men cannot go at all, ever. There are places where men cannot drink the water, cannot even look at the smoke that rises from women’s country. “

Country: “According to their own law, they do not paint, sing or speak other people’s country unless they have been specifically allocated the right to do so. Unless authorised, they do not burn other people’s country, hunt in other people’s country, or interfere with other people’s Dreamings.”

“My land is mine only because I came in spirit from the land” “The land is my foundation”

“Country is sustained as a lawful place, through the conscious participation of living things”

SACRED GEOGRAPHIES

RULES

1. MOVING THROUGH SPACES THAT GUIDE YOU 2. WEATHER CHANGES THE WAY YOU EXPERIENCE THE BUILDING 3. SENSORY EXPERIENCES CREATED THROUGH ACOUSTICS 4. PAYS HOMAGE TO THE SIGHT 5. BOUNDARIES THAT CAN ONLY BE CROSSED WITH PERMISSION