Honours research project: Reverence investigates the intersection of the sacred and the secular and proposes an adaptive reuse of St Gerard’s Church and Monastery into a public bathhouse. The program facilitates a spiritual journey through a bathing experience, using light, water, and the existing Gothic Revival heritage architecture to facilitate a connection between its religious past and its new purpose. It aims to explore how the secularization of sacred spaces can occur through the notion of reverence.
Video showing the user journey through the bathing experience, watch with headphones for spatial audio immersive experience
Conceptual Framework: The four main strands built into this multi-layered project
Physical model: a 3D study of the new facade; a contemporized adaptation of a traditional Gothic ornament pattern