Below is my drawing of St Barnabus Cathedral. It was informed by the place itself.
To me, a place of worship should be just that. A place to worship. In services there is often a lot of singing and praising, sometimes even dancing. This is what I wanted to show with my drawing. I felt that the Cathedral should be shown not as a quite place with nothing happening, but with people using the building for it's purpose and engaging with the space.
I focused purely on the people in this drawing. I included only a few pews and the ground as any form of structural element. I was thinking about the idea of material & immaterial, of phenomenology. A place of worship definitely has a strong immaterial aspect to it. It is not about what the building looks like, it is about what happens within it. So I felt no need to draw in the surrounding physical architecture, albeit beautiful. Because the immaterial aspects of the architecture speak the whole story on their own.
I focused purely on the people in this drawing. I included only a few pews and the ground as any form of structural element. I was thinking about the idea of material & immaterial, of phenomenology. A place of worship definitely has a strong immaterial aspect to it. It is not about what the building looks like, it is about what happens within it. So I felt no need to draw in the surrounding physical architecture, albeit beautiful. Because the immaterial aspects of the architecture speak the whole story on their own.