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Architectural translation: the Candle House for Sveta Petka, Mill Park, Victoria
Architectural translation: the Candle House for Sveta Petka, Mill Park, Victoria
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2021-02-11End date
2023-12-14Notes
The Candle House participates in the communal and legislative processes of a public building – it has gone through heritage consultation, town planning, and is currently in the documentation and building permit phase.Research statement
Background Architectural ideas have, for over many centuries and millenia, migrated across geographic and cultural borders. In its contemporary currency this mobility of architectural precedents is evident in the global circulation of images, technologies and information. Another mode of the mobility of architecture is through the migration of people who carry an ‘embodied memory’ of other architectural traditions. Such ‘embodied memory’ as a collective drive of a migrant community presents new challenges to the processes of architectural translation as it engages with a critical mass of socio-spatial practices and aspirations. Contribution The Candle House is a co-design project with the church (sub)committee of Sveta Petka, a parish in Mill Park and its Macedonian Orthodox archdiocese. The candles (now lit in the entry vestibule) caused damage to the icon fresco paintings recently commissioned. Three phases of the co-design process include: Briefing – explored how a space for candles navigates the architecture of the existing bluestone, Presbyterian church building; Concept design – translates Orthodox aesthetic traditions for a ‘candle house’ in the Melbourne suburbs; Development – design of the screen, the glass box, the interior, the mechanics. Significance This work participates and contributes to design processes exploring architectural translation in two ways: as a process that develops methods for the translation of architectural traditions from one cultural/political/religious context to another; and as a co-design processes that develops practices through which non-architectural institutional authorities can participate in an exploration of architectural tradition. The approach draws on architectural works of émigré architects, projects (including Punchbowl Mosque, Sydney); on history/theory (Akcan 2012) and interdisciplinary works in linguistic.Extent
2 jpg concept sketch 2 jpg Existing St. Petka exterior and interior 1 pdf of the creative process, (A) Candle house_design concept and sketches 1 pdf of the geometry and layout (B) 1 pdf of Screen concept and development (C) 1 pdf of the Documentation (D) 1 URL link to the church website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petka_Macedonian_Orthodox_Church,_Mill_ParkEditor/Contributor(s)
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Wittlesea Town Planning and Wittlesea Building DepartmentPublisher
Macedonian Orthodox DiocesePlace of publication
281-285 Plenty Road, Mill Park 3082, Melbourne, VictoriaUsage metrics
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