Moscow Art Center
The nightingale so sings
As if he does not see
The rods of cage in front
(Taigi)
The House with an Atrium resembles a reserved person lost in the infinite space of his Inner World, his Inner Court. The Inner Court is a whole universe for those who cannot or do not want to go out. Our Atrium is a mirror cone inserted into a brick house, which has no windows on the exterior surface. The cone is a mirror if you look at it from the inner court, but is transparent if you look at from within the house. The rooms – let's call them rooms, or cells, or wards, or chambers – are arranged along the perimeter so that each has a glass wall which opens into the cone. The inhabitants look out of their rooms to see one another, but what they see is infinity only.
