“one space for any faith”
The premise of the first assignment for the Scenography and Dramaturgy course was, to create a Religious-Room.
We, we being @iddp-carina and I, decided to not focus on a specific Religion but rather on faith and how we could bring this element into one space that unites all people with any type of faith that they can practice or worship in the same space, since we think of faith as something that belongs to one self and Religion something you belong to with other people that share the same faith.
This project was to be realized within 1 class and we had to decide on one floorpan that would then be used for the rest of the course. Since our floorpan was quite a basic but big room we gave it a bit of warmth by adding textiles that also act as separators, walls with an added acoustic absorbtion. It encourages flow through the space without exposing the bare walls. The textile could either be hung or stand on frames. We would still work with a centre that acts like an altar having a cone like shape that comes from the floor and from the ceiling, giving you something to focus on while you sit around it on curved benches of different heights you can either sit, lean or kneel on. The floor would be covered with a cork material again to absorb any echo of the big space. The room itself would have subdued indirect lighting coming from behind the textile elements, rather dark but still enough you can navigate the space. The altar would be iluminated by the upper cone.
The people could possibly also have an altered reality experience while wearing a VR- set that lets. them decide what it is that they want to worship, hence the inclusivity and the rather minimal space with the same subdued and calm mood.