Raumgestaltung RWTH - BILDRAUM. Eine Untersuchung zur inneren Räumlichkeit des Tempels Mentuhotep II. in Deir el-Bahari, Theben-West

...in Vorbereitung

I M A G E – S P A C E
An investigation of the interior spatiality of the Temple of Mentuhotep II in Deir el-Bahari, Western Thebes

The focus of the interdisciplinary research project I M A G E – S P A C E: an investigation of the inner spatiality of the Temple of Mentuhotep II in Deir el-Bahari, western Thebes is the pictorial field as the bearer of meaning and the shaper of space in architecture. On the basis of the first complete documentation and cataloging of the corpus of reliefs of the Temple of Mentuhotep II, all of the individual fragments will be systematically examined and correlated to the temple's thematic and architectural-spatial context. The translation and interpretation of text and image are expected to yield new insights into the temple's theological conception and cultic and spatial function. Based on the new digital drafting of the temple as inner and outer wall configuration and in horizontal as well as vertical sections, analytical plan drawings and physical models will shed light on the proportionality of the anthropometric-scalar and geometric-proportional foundations of the pictorial fields on the one hand and the temple's spaces and spatial sequences on the other. To be investigated through a synthesis of the research results produced by the project's two interdisciplinary undertakings under the presuppositions of the image-space cognitive model will be the question: Going beyond the pictorial field and the cult, to what extent does the narrative program stand in a proportional relationship to the space and to the spatial sequence within the temple, and consequently to its architecture? Alongside the symbolic dimension, then, does there also exist a proportional correspondence between the temple's narrative and spatial structures, one that goes beyond analogy?

Universität Bonn, Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie, Abteilung Ägyptologie (IAK.AÄ) >http://www.iak.unibonn.de/abteilungen/aegyptologie<

Prof. Dr. Ludwig Morenz

>aegyptologisches.seminar@uni-bonn.de<

RWTH Aachen, Fakultät Architektur, Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Raumgestaltung (LuFg.RG) >http://raum.arch.rwth-aachen.de/<

Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Schröder

>info@raum.arch.rwth-aachen.de<

Project: BILDRAUM. Eine Untersuchung zur inneren Räumlichkeit des Tempels Mentuhotep II. in Deir el-Bahari, Theben-West
Subtitle: DFG, Forschungsprojekt in Antragstellung
Location: Aachen/Bonn
Year: 2013 -