Sacred Perceptions: Architecture as the Sublime Filtration of Light

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Sacred Perceptions: Architecture as the Sublime Filtration of Light

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: Sacred Perceptions: Architecture as the Sublime Filtration of Light

creator: Allyson Mason

subject: Abandoned buildings; Light in architecture; Sacred space; Church buildings

description: All spaces demand participation.Centered around St. Peter’s Seminary, thisstudy focuses on a site which had beenforgotten. Left to decay, the magnificence ofSt. Peter’s was not seen in time to save whatonce was. However, this space is still a key tounderstanding a sublime aspect of space andexperience: light. As religious structures oftenrevolve around connecting to a higher power,the experience of these spaces heavily dependon illumination.The story of this seminary exemplifiesjust that, projecting the sacred space astemporal through a play on the mathematic anddynamic aspects of space. As light is projectedthrough various obstructions and aperturesthe architecture itself transforms into thefilter. Where this filter creates obstructions,a dynamic experience is created through theabsence of light. Simultaneously, the pathof light beaming through the apertures inthis obstruction generate the mathematicalrhythm where this light is allowed toilluminate its path. This thesis aims to rethinkthe sublime by experimenting on how we cangage representation in a new thinking aboutlight, as well as conservation.By the end, this investigation willcollapse upon itself to recreate the ruin thathas been left at St. Peter’s Seminary. Thisnew ruin not only proposes a new approach toreclaiming abandoned spaces, but a new wayof involving the surrounding community aswell.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

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