Synagogue Cymbalista
The architecture of the synagogue Cymbalista the campus of Tel Aviv is remarkable. Due to the Swiss architect Mario Botta and completed in 1998, towers reminiscent of the cylindrical tower of the cathedral at Evry.
The synagogue has two rooms, one for Orthodox Jews and one for religious dialogue with the laity.
The name of the couple is Cymbalista founder Paulette and Norbert Cymbalista. If we associate the names of these founders that evoked the towers, one might think the music and therefore of the drums. But these towers symbolize the Torah scrolls and even the columns of Solomon's temple ... or more tragically the chimneys of the crematoria of the Nazi death camps.
Resolutely modern structures and allusions to mathematics are conical features the work of Mario Botta: the tower of the cathedral of Evry is a truncated cylinder in an oblique plane. The drawn line is an ellipse. Here, the towers of the synagogue Cymbalista consist of four portions of right circular conoid passing a square at the base in a circle at the top. If we cut those towers by a horizontal section draws four portions of an ellipse. These ellipses have infinite radius of curvature at the base to form the square. The ellipses are close to the circular section where the plane is heading towards the top to form a single circle on top ...
Views along the direction of the diagonals of squares base, the walls of the towers appear vertical. Views from the front, they flare up.
The transformation of a circle in a square recalls "squaring the circle", but not really in its original meaning because the square is entirely within the circle and therefore much lower surface.
Squaring the circle symbolizes Does the discovery of the transcendence of the Torah or the impossibility of a rational religious interpretation of the Holocaust?
References
- Simon Thrush, " Campus Creations ", Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, August 2001. Accessed February 21, 2008
- (en) The synagogue and center of Jewish heritage Cymbalista . Accessed September 23, 2007
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