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28MAR 2012

St. Stephen’s Cathedral - biostructural system architecture / Liu Chien-Sheng

Posted in Architecture - Religious by * FORMAKERS | Tags: Austria, Parametric

This is a cathedral project which is located in St.

Stephen’s Cathedral in the center of economic, religion and tourism in Vienna, Austria.

Various types of layers were applied to accomplish the complexity of multiple social functions since the new cathedral is facing those complicated issues of social changes.

In addition, this new design of St.

Stephen’s Cathedral proposes possibilities of the very contemporary architectural form.

Form St.

Stephen Cathedral is characterized by the strong aesthetic form of the structure.

To pay tribute to the great architecture, This design concept starts with the original system of special structure; I extract a column and point arch to analyze the composition and logic of structural line.

Catalog • Point arch: the prototype is transformed with direction and decoration to variation • Column: twist the structural line, and embed the spaces in the different part of column, and then increase the density and scale of the structure.

A single column and an point arch system were extended to new design language and applied to the whole building.

Program Complexity of multifunction Cathedral – religion Underground – traffic Theater – art Department store, coffee, plaza – business and tourism Sanctity in the space • Isolation- The big opening in the site emphasis the holiness of god; distinguish the god from of human on the land.

• The form of structure with direction- Continue the rising language from traditional structure and add twist to show a special feeling with unpredictable direction of the structure to present nobleness and greatness of god.

• Stained glass floor- The stained glass is the traditional element in cathedral design as window.

In this project, it was converted into floor and applied primitive cross to be the new cathedral plane.

People walk on the cross on stained glass floor with cautious attitude, and view through diverse space like train station and theater to make all space start to communicate with vision.

City:
Wien

Design team:
Liu Chien-Sheng

Status:
Proposal

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