Forms Follow the View

architect Davor Maketović
project Second Home - Reconstruction, Island of Pag, Croatia
written by Ante Nikša Bilić

 

What are the genes that could have turned the silhouette of stone and sea into the geometry of the stone town of Pag, setting up the comparison of the orthogonal grids of the saltpans and the city streets?

 

What are the hands that built over the island from north to south?

 

Was it the bora from Mt Velebit that was the only artist of the design of this cosmic landscape?