Meditation Chapel

Location Bluff Point, NY
Type Culture & Entertainment
Date 1995

The intent of this project is to investigate architectural ideas in terms of one's emotional sensitivity. It can be simple as in looking into particular frames of view, hearing particular sounds, smelling or even touching.

"One must be receptive to the image at the moment it appears and re-appear through a significant verse, in total adherence to an isolated image; to be exact, in the very ecstasy of the newness of the image. The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche, the lesser psychological causes of which have not been sufficiently investigated."
(The poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard)

I propose to consider the imagination as a major power of human nature. By its actions alone, the imagination can be a medium which sterns from the past as well as from the present time. It also connects to the future. If we cannot imagine, we cannot foresee and feel.

Chapel black and white plan Chapel's fabric Chapel sketch from side view Chapel's fabric darkened Chapel sketch from top view Chapel collage