像变色龙一样，建筑可以模仿任何其所在的自然景观，从瑞士高山，到英国悬崖，到附近的冰川，到墨西哥的玄武岩火山 – 例如伦佐•皮亚诺建筑工作室已为那不勒斯设计了其外围空间。

正如房地产经纪人说：背景就是一切。而意象通常指图像的收缩或出现，以适应建筑的规模。一个壮观的建筑（商场）实际上是一个小火山的大小：其“火山口”直径为150米，“火山”本身320米宽。这是1:1图解。

“目前，火山口作为希腊的超市，中空的部分作为人们举办活动、会议、会话和聚会的场所”，伦佐•皮亚诺这样描述他的设计。但那怎么理解火山的负面内涵呢？所有的意大利城市都已位于熔岩层之下 – 很容易联想到意大利城市庞贝（Pompeii）。

冰岛由于遭受了严重的火山喷发，在过去的几十年间，很大面积内一直不适宜人类居住。我们是否真的要庆祝这一火山的形象呢？该建筑的业主似乎对此心存怀疑。该商场被称为‘il Vulcano Buono’（“好火山”）。只是 '火山'显然没有提供正确的意象。火山的想法似乎唤起人们一种冒险的感觉但不会太深，是一种无伤大雅的冒险之旅。

该设计也有一些很令人好奇的地方。除了参考景观，更多的参数用于引该导建特殊的建筑形式。其图解是舒适的副作用，是该项目出售给公众的东西。只要看看该建筑的圆形建筑形式是如何与相邻的弯曲的公路完美融合的。只要看看其斜的屋顶是如何天衣无缝地出现与周围的停车场之间的。只要看看其内部是如何安置的一个弯曲的走廊，您在其中看不到尽头 – 这是让游客购物的理想之作。

圆形广场设计就是如此。外面的世界很模糊，表面上看，你总是被周围许多的商店所包围。绿色的屋顶上没有过道，没有升高的露台可俯瞰公路的交汇处。这是用于 “对话”的地方，是吗？皮亚诺先生？真的吗？

问题：我相信，曾有人在彼得•艾森曼的演讲上告诉他，他的作品圣地亚哥-德-孔波斯特拉古城（Santiago de Compostela）实际上只是其所在地上一座山丘的替换品。屋顶的曲线外形遵循了现在挖掘的山的地形。我记得对吗？

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猜想：在荷兰南部，一个水泥厂抬起了Sint-Pietersberg的一大块石头。如果我们让建筑公司用他们自己的石料重建该地怎么样呢？

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Like a chameleon, architecture can mimic any natural landscape it sits on. From a Swiss alp, to the British cliffs, to a nearby glacier, to Mexican basalt rock, to a volcano – such as the Renzo Piano Building Workshop has designed for the periphery of Naples. It’s as real estate agents say: context is everything. Whereas iconography usually means a shrinking or blowing-up of an image to fit the scale of the architecture, this enormous building (a shopping mall) has actually the size of a small volcano. This ‘crater’ has a diameter of 150 m, the ‘volcano’ itself is 320 m wide. It is 1:1 iconography.

“The crater is a contemporary take on a Greek marketplace, a void as a place for events, meetings, dialogue and the gathering of people”, Renzo Piano says about his design. But what about the negative connotations of volcano’s? Entire Italian cities have been burdened under a layer of lava – just think of Pompeii. Iceland in its past has for decades been largely uninhabitable after a serious volcanic eruption. Should we seriously celebrate the image of the volcano?

The owner of the building seems to hesitate to thinks so. The shopping mall is called ‘il Vulcano Buono’, ‘the Good Volcano’. Just ‘volcano’ apparently didn’t provide the right image. The idea the volcano seems to evoke a sense of adventure. But not too much. A harmless adventure.

There is something curious about this design. Apart from the landscape reference, a couple more parameters have steered to this particular form for the building. The iconography is a welcoming side effect. Something to sell the project to the public. Just look how the perfectly round form of the building blends in with the curves of the adjacent highways. Just look how the slope of the roof seamlessly emerges from the surrounding parking. And just look how the interior has a curved corridor in which you can’t see the end – ideal to keep any visitors shopping.

The round plaza works just like that. The world outside is obscured, you are literally surrounded by shops. There are no pathways over the green roof, there are no elevated terraces overlooking the highway interchange. A place for ‘dialogue’, mister Piano? Really?

A comment: In 1967 the James Bond film ‘You only live twice’ came out featuring a military base hidden in a hollow volcano.

A question: I believe Peter Eisenman once told in a lecture that his design for Santiago de Compostela is actually a replacement of a hill that stood on the site. The curved form of the roof follows the topography of the now excavated hill. Do I remember that correctly?

A speculation: In the south of the Netherlands a chunk of the Sint-Pietersberg is being leveled by a cement factory. What if we ask the company to rebuild the old topography with a construction made of their own concrete?