Asympta微型建筑实践丨Leopold Banchini Architects

关于曾经生活并埋葬逝者于阿纳波河（Anapo River）沿岸的人们，我们所知甚少。潘塔利卡——公元前一千年间在岩石中开凿出的四千余座墓穴构成的遗址群——几乎未能向我们揭示当时人们的居住方式。由于极少发现平民建筑的遗存，我们只能推测，这片山谷的居民或许以轻型建造技术和当地的有机材料搭建居所。

▼墓穴遗址，Tomb site ©Simone Bossi

Little is known about the people who lived and buried their dead along the Anapo river. Pantalica – a complex of over 4000 thumbs carved in the rocks a millennium BC – doesn’t tell us much about the way the living found shelter. Since very few traces of commoners’ architecture has been found, we can only imagine that the valley’s inhabitants used light construction technics and local organic materials to build their homes.

▼项目远景，Site overview ©Simone Bossi

▼建筑外景，Project exterior ©Simone Bossi

▼屋顶细节，Roof detail ©Simone Bossi

作为锡拉库萨—潘塔利卡联合国教科文组织世界遗产地的一部分，Asympta 是一件推想性的微型建筑实践，其关注点并非已知的新石器墓葬群，而是史前文明几乎无从考证的建筑景观。项目探讨建筑与宇宙观如何从特定的地貌环境中生成，与地形与资源相互呼应。作为一项临时性装置，它呼应早期居住建筑的暂时性特质，在乡土建造方法与当代结构方式之间生成多元而虚构的叙事，并有意与考古或科学研究及严格的时间框架保持距离。

Part of the Syracusa-Pantalica UNESCO world heritage site listing, Asympta is a speculative micro architecture reflecting on the mostly unknown architectural landscape of the prehistoric civilisation rather than on its known necropolis. It explores how architectures and cosmologies might emerge from a specific landscape, attuned to its topography and resources. The temporary installation, echoing the provisional qualities of early domestic architecture, generates diverse and fictional narratives based on vernacular as much as on contemporary construction methods, purposefully distancing itself from archaeological and scientific research or from strict timelines.

▼项目周围环境，The surrounding environment of the project ©Simone Bossi

▼结构细节，Structure detail ©Simone Bossi

结构选用来自邻近埃特纳火山的熔岩石、经火处理的本地木材、Pietra Pece 石灰岩、青铜与羊毛毡，营造出一处可供聚会与沉思的遮蔽空间。其双重渐近的形态既呼应东西西里岛景观中火山的锥形轮廓，也暗示了自古以来采石场（latomie）的开凿形态。该开放式结构有意质疑洛吉耶“原始小屋”神话的浪漫化想象，转而强调与土地之间的亲近、适应与互惠关系。

Using lava stone from the nearby Etna volcano, local wood sealed by fire, Pietra Pece limestone, bronze and sheep wool felt, the structure offers a shaded space for reunion and reflection. The double asymptotic shape echoes both the cone of the volcano dominating the landscape of eastern Sicily and the excavation shape of the nearby latomie where stone was extracted since ancient times. Purposefully questioning the romanticised myth of Laugier’s Primitive Hut, the open structure speaks of proximity, adaptability and reciprocity towards this rich landscape.

▼熔岩石，Lava stone ©Simone Bossi

Project name : Asympta

Location : Ortigia (2025), Pantalica (2026), …

Built by : DiSe diseitalia.it)

As part of : COSMO festival (siracusapantalica.it)