Cosanti is a gallery and studio of Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri; it is his residence until his death in 2013. Located in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA, it is open to the public. Cosanti is characterized by a terraced landscape, an experimentally formed concrete structure of the earth, and its carved wind chimes.
Soleri is famous for Arcosanti, a prototype for "urban laboratories" that began in 1970 in a tall desert about seventy miles north of Phoenix, Arizona; the community is relatively young. Cosanti is where Soleri and his wife, Colly (nÃÆ' Â © e Corolyn Woods) Soleri, founded their residence in 1956, with the metropolitan Phoenix, at a site just a few miles from Taliesin West, where Soleri has learned. This is an area that has since been surrounded by expensive suburban residences. Cosanti has been designated as Arizona Historic Site.
Paolo Soleri found the words Cosanti , Arcosanti and busurology . He created arcology by combining the words architecture and ecology. Cosanti combines two Italian words, cosa (meaning "thing", "property", "material", "business") and anti "against"). Arcosanti combines busurology with Cosanti .
The structure at Cosanti includes the original underground "Earth House", student dormitories, outdoor studios, showrooms, swimming pools, souvenir shops, and Soleri residence. All set in the middle of the courtyard, terrace and garden path.
Location and building orientation is very significant. Many structures are placed below the soil surface and surrounded by mounds of soil that are naturally isolated throughout the year, moderating interior temperatures. Soleri designs and builds a south-facing ape (partial dome) as a collector of passive energy that collects light and heat in the winter sunlight, deflects it and creates a shadow in the higher summer sun. The pool and some other buildings have a southern exposure to maximize the warmth of the winter sun.
The building at Cosanti is not meant to serve as an example of the concept of arcology, but many of the arcological principles were first employed there. Most structures are built using the method of earthcasting or one of Soleri's variations on the technique. Concrete is poured onto a dense ground mound; the earth is dug up after the concrete is solidified. The modified tapping technique is also used to make bronze and ceramic wind bells produced at Cosanti and in Arcosanti. The dramatic process of bronze casting was done in the morning at foundries at Cosanti and in Arcosanti.
Located in Paradise Valley, Arizona, 1 mile west of Scottsdale Road and 1 mile south of Shea Boulevard.
Open 7 days a week: Monday-Saturday 9 am - 5 pm, Sunday 11 noon - 5 pm.
The main holiday is closed. Tour groups with reservation.
Cosanti - Russian composer from Shakhovskaya region of Moscow.
Video Cosanti
External links
- Arcosanti Website
- Building on Cosanti
- Cosanti Architecture stored in Internet Archive
- Cosanti Windbell's Web site
- The building review illustrated about Cosanti stored on the Internet Archive
- Cosanti music
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