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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Sacred Architecture"”.
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A sacred architecture for the secular spirit : an institute for mind/body training in New York City
The goal of the project is to design a non-sectarian meditation center in the dense urban area of New York City. The design challenge is to draw inspiration from an interpretation of ancient philosophies of meditation, without simply importing cultural relics from places in which those philosophies …
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A wall between the sacred and the profane
… a large amount of commercial and residential architecture has accompanied this growth, there has been no sacred architecture to complement any of this secular construction. With this in mind, a rolling pasture along Price's Fork Road west of U.S.46O was chosen as the site for a new …
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Religion and Architecture: Designing a temple of Candomble in Salvador Bahia, Brazil
… of religion in this area of Brazil by using sacred architecture to create a structure that is culturally and religiously sensitive. Construction of the temple mimics the natural architecture of the favelas, and the materials used for the site can be found in the area. My hope for this project …
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Legacies of Destruction: Architecture as a Nationalist Battleground in Kosovo
… widespread wave of violence against religious architecture on European soil since the infamous Kristallnacht riots under Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. This thesis explains this destruction through analysis of the chauvinist nationalist narratives endorsed by both Serbian and Kosovar Albanian …
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Vāstu-śāstra for Christian spiritual well-being in St Thomas ancient church architecture of the Malabar Coast (southwest India)
… the need for Christian inculturation in church architecture, raised in the Literature Review. The main question is: to what extent can Vāstu-śāstra provide for spiritual well-being, where inculturation is needed, based on the example of three St Thomas churches on the Malabar Coast? The research …
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Measuring the Psychological and Physiological Responses of Humans Experiencing Sacred Architectural Space in XR: a Case Study at the Monastery of Simonos Petra
… and quantitatively, human emotional responses to sacred architecture, and that XR is an effective way to achieve this characterization. This research is driven by a systematic architectural method devised to Scan, Visualize, Simulate immersive experiences and Test humans in XR (SvStXR). Moreover, …
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Threshold to the Sacred
In designing a sacred space, the work should be a product not only of the mechanics of the mind but also a response of the heart, and therefore the spirit or soul that an architect must possess. For the soul is the harmony between the two. This is what gets diffused into the work, the subjectivity …
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EXPERIENCING THE SACRED: A phenomenological exploration of architecture as sentient space
Experiencing the Sacred considers how a sense of sacredness in architecture comes from lived, embodied experience, rather than the presence of religious symbols or functions. Utilizing phenomenological thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Pallasmaa, and Norberg-Schulz, this thesis …
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Espace de l'Espérance
… Judaism, and Christianity through the use of architecture. It is an experimentation with architectural forms, spaces, and elements that can be seen as potentially relatable and understandable to all three religions. At the same time, the thesis also searches for the sublime (as tends to be the …