Lumina
Atelier 03: Craftmanship
Project
LUMINA encompasses the ritualistic process of creating stained glass windows for restorative work on local churches that need them. The scheme explores the phenomenological process of creating immersive spaces through a heavily spiritual journey through thresholds. Workshops create a ritualistic process of designing, creating and assembling the panels to allow for a new life added to historic buildings. Structurally separated buildings frame the site’s historic context, allowing them to reflect one another through the workshop and gallery spaces. A connecting route between sites is reflected in a direct passage between the forms on the site, framing and strengthening their spatial interactions with each other.
Using Nottingham Castle and St. Nicholas Church as the two focuses of the site, my research focused on religious demographics and how Nottingham has developed through the years. Following on, due to the nature of the building and its function, the art of crafting stained glass and the elements that collaborated to create beauty became a huge focus on the spatial research, allowing the architecture to be immersed in crafted art.
