Mont Beauvais

The project is a lightweight structural web wrapping around the Beauvais Cathedral, supporting the Cathedral; aligned to the existing flying buttresses as extensions. While doing this, this lightweight web also hosts sequence of spaces to create a compact city around the Beauvais Cathedral just like how cities are attached to the cathedrals in Mont Saint Michel, Laon in France.

Just like how the gothic cathedrals were taking the nature: skeleton structures as their precedents, the project aims to have the same approach by forming a building with columns and arches. Supporting churches with building new extensions has been happening throughout the history just like how Sinan built buttressing for Hagia Sophia's dome and the scaffolding that was removed 2010, stayed inside the building for 17 years supporting the dome for the restoration work.

New Cathedral Model

i had to start over and create a clean and light cathedral file in the end since its impossible to work with the insane size of the group cathedral model. - no ornament, purely the openings + structure.

Scaled Drawings

Finally I have produced the scaled drawings from the point cloud information. This information helps me locating the rose window and temporarily nave closing section.

Flying Buttress Catalog

These are the simplified structural principles behind the flying buttresses below. Each of them has different potentials to be developed in my version to become a new skeleton around the cathedral.