THE STAR OF TURIN
......... consists of a basilica and four castles!
A drawing of a five-pointed star invisible and hidden as a stamp affixed to the ground! What does this symbol so ambivalent and discussed?
After I moved to Italy years ago to Sarah, my daughter. To improve myself professionally I have an in-depth study of the urban cities of Turin and I came across a geometric relationship unexplored: five significant buildings around Turin create a symmetrical five-pointed star, whose vertices are the Basilica di Superga, tomb of Savoy, the Royal house Italian, and four castles, that Moncalieri, Stupinigi, Rivoli and Venaria.
Two of these were already mentioned in 1100, others were built from about 1650 to 1730.
Fascinated by this geometry never mentioned, let alone documented, I thought I'd see it through a pyramid built with laser lights, so as to make it visible to everyone. 
Stupinigi
MONCALIERI
This pyramid of lights reminiscent of the Indian tent with the entrance to the south, and among the castles and Stupinigi MONCALIERI . These two buildings are polarized so different as night and day, fire and water, man and woman. So the entrance to this Indian tents becomes a symbolic act of our birth, entrance into our lives.
RIVOLI
SUPERGA
entered this pyramid of life in the buildings ahead of us are completely normal development that awaits us all. The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art as it requires almost a symbol of life itself, such as the Basilica di Superga only by royal tomb and the place of tragic accident can be so fitting death.
Both buildings instead of the others are located in an elevated position, as if to demonstrate the efforts and commitments that we are coming meeting. Life and death separated from each other but with a clear visual relationship: it is located in West Rivoli on moraine hills of the Alps and to the east on an extension of the Superga Appeninni, Monferrato.
VENARIA
addition of these two axes, namely the birth and life, is the palace of VENARIA on the north point of the star. Here we feel like we have arrived in heaven: give us new strength, we lose our concerns, let fly the soul and the spirit is calm in the amplitude of space and freedom.
Birth, life, death, freedom and the infinite are thus merged into a single symbol, drawn on the ground by a church and four castles. The Star of Turin describes a parable or fairy tale of our existence shows a picture of a reality of which at most are dreaming?
Peter Müller
Vienna, April 2007
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