The Church of Perpetual Experimentation (full version)

A sprawling new church in the southern Roman suburb of EUR, set within the fictitious context of a new pontificate that is devoted to the massive restructuring and expansion of the church, its liturgies and its architecture. The site in EUR is set aside by the new pope as a field of experimentation, where the doctrinal and liturgical innovations being developed over the Tiber in the Vatican are immediately put to test and trial with the practising -- and non-practising -- public. All development in the work is structured around the theme of Assemblage, so that all scales, from structural unit, through to the composition of those units into spaces, and then the arrangement of those spaces themselves, are governed by a logic of assemblage, aggregation, and eventually in time (the project evolves over many postulated years) recombination. The eventual recombination being made possible by each type of space being constructed out of discrete units which themselves are durable and easy to re-use.

The project achieved High-Pass in Technical studies and involved the fabrication of numerous models that were at once structural and aesthetic experimentations, as well as technical drawings, and large drawings that describe the spaces involved, their development, and their implicit narratives, and this video that pulls the drawings, models and narrative together into one complete, architectural story.

for more info: http://hand-bin.blogspot.com/2009/03/church-of-perpetual-experimentation.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• architecture
• Catholicism
• catholic
• baroque
• pomo
• prayer
• tautology
• ecclesiastical
• vault
• crypt
• chapel
• tower
• mausoleum
• contemporary
• cathedral
• church
• assemblage
• construction
• rome
• eur
• architectural
• fiction
• fabrication
• technology
• polychromy
• polychrome
• stone
• pietra
• santa
• maiolica
• tiles
• form
• animation
• collage
• drawing
• design
• speculation
• simultaneity
• post-modern