Tarek Shamma: April 2009 Archives

I decided that all the high arches which deal with storys of the divine, deal with light in some form or other.  The arch of the Cross, has many moments of near 0 thickness and thus are luminescent.  The arch of the Blessed Virgin allows for direct light into the space, but hidden within a fold and washes over a smooth surface.  The Main Story arch, i'm not sure yet.

High Arches



Arch of the Cross



Arch of The Blessed Virgin






Main Story Arch

I began to look at the interior wholistically and look at points of the story arches as being emitters with texture radiating from them.  The first trial was dealing with the intensity of texture, which would get greater nearest to the point of the story.  The second trial was doing the same in a more rigorous method, there us always texture, but for structural reasons, ribbing happens so the tension cable can fit through it, where there is ribbing the marble would have a thickness of 60cm, where as in the concave areas it could get very thin.