We made a further model, showing the section of the church with the altar at 1:20, in order to highlight the altar as an 'anchor point' for all the string, which would encourage visitors to approach it.

1:100 physical model of our intervention placed within the church for context

After a lot of work, we completed our final model at 1:100. there are 280 pieces of string shooting out of the altar and the tower. We made a model which had a base so that we could easily place it within the site model of the church, and take it out for closer examination.

sketches of past concepts

Having already come up with our final concept, the process of sketching and creating models reminded me of Thomas Heatherwick's 'B of the Bang' which stood as the tallest sculpture in the UK until 2008. The explosive yet elegant aesthetic of the art mirrored what we are aiming for with our intervention.

We continued to develop our final concept by creating further sketch models and digital models of the intervention, which helped us understand where we wanted to attatch the string, and how we were going to assemble the final model. The string had to be threaded through the different columns in a specific order in order to avoid the string getting tangled up and changing course.

Since finalising our concept idea, we have been able to begin producing images representing our proposal for the intervention in St Luke's Church. This is a perspective of the church from within, showing the effect of the web, which creates a clear path from the tower to the altar.

Having approached various concepts, we decided to pursue the idea of experimenting with netting and string, and began to look at ways in which this idea could manifest itself. Originally, we planned to create a chaotic intervention within the church, which would represent the smoke and rubble of the explosion. However, once we started experimenting with a more elegant approach, with all the string being focused into 2 points, at the altar and the tower (symbolically, the most significant features of the church), we decided this idea suited the nature of the site far better.

In order to develop our initial ideas, we made a sketch model of the church which we could use in order to experiment with various ideas. The theme of our intervention was destruction, so we originally planned to capture a freeze frame of the church exploding, and we came up with 3 concepts which we could use to achieve this:
-hanging objects off beams
-having objects exploding through windows using metal structures
-using net or string to create the sense of an explosion within the church itself

Following our site visit, we were given the task of compiling our site analysis in which we looked at factors such as climate, sound, population, use and nature of the site. All this data was used to help us develop our interventions, and progress our designs.

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A site Visit to Saint Luke's Church in Liverpool allowed us to begin compiling various data for our site analysis. Through photographs, sketches and sound recordings, we gathered data which we could use to help us with the design of the intervention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQj3RdfWQs t