ENVIRONMENTS AND PLASTIC INTEGRATION TO ARCHITECTURE  

Paolo Scheggi, "Maquette della Intercamera plastica" (Plastic Interchamber model), 1966, yellow painted, curved and die-cut wooden sheets, 52,5 x 86 x 66 cm. Private collection

“Between the antinomy of chromatic integration and plastic integration, I have tried to evidence a problem that has never been properly addressed before: inter-spatial modalities designed to integrate those a-functional sectors or zones of architecture. Conducting elements, that is, whose use tends to reinvent in plastic spectacle interior and exterior spaces that are usually occupied with out-dated elements and always, at any rate in spirit or by virtue of cultural extraction, not pertinent for the qualification of the architecture. The experiment of the plastic interchamber is something that links back in time to some of my research into volumetric interferences concomitant with the first curved intersurfaces. At the time it involved, on the one hand, possible solutions of pure plasticity within the limits of an a-func - tional architecture, and on the other, dialectic reflected zones articulated in invented spaces. Later, when the curved intersurfaces became spatial models, the two lines of inquiry gradually acquired a common method until they integrated totally, thereby opening up a different inquiry”.

Paolo Scheggi, 1967