Repeated wooden columns create the rhythm of a cathedral aisle, but the setting is a landscape rather than an enclosed stone building. Giuliano Mauri’s tree-cathedral idea invites time and living growth into the artwork.
A framework for change
Wooden structures surround growing trees, suggesting architectural volume while allowing light, weather and vegetation to remain part of the scene. Snow makes the open framework especially visible: the eye follows its repeated vertical lines before discovering how much sky lies between them.
Mauri developed more than one project using this idea. Arte Sella identifies its Cattedrale Vegetale with 2001. That history should not be combined indiscriminately with details from the separate Oltre il Colle project near Mount Arera.
Why the distinction matters
A mixed online gallery can accidentally turn several installations into one building with contradictory dates and column counts. The enduring idea is clearer when each site keeps its own history. Check the relevant venue’s current information before planning a visit.
For temporary architecture made from another winter material, compare Harbin’s monumental snow sculpture. For a photographic illusion rather than a physical installation, see Daniel Barreto’s Woodhouses.
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