Finally, we determined the light effects that we needed to polish up our installation. We located some red lights centrally at the front of the altar to create reflections of illuminated objects, which would resemble the fire ashes on the floor and complete the post-explosion scenery.

isometric and section drawings of our memorial design scale 1:100

Furthermore, we made 1:20 model of the altar end of the Church to emphasize the anchor point for the altar which demonstrates that all strings connect at one central point. [ Short video of our memorial design for the installation for St Luke's Church in Liverpool-> https://youtu.be/Dmt3rPE6lfU]

1:100 physical model of St Luke's Church. The photo shows how our installation fits in to the existing church structure.

The pattern of the web creates a clear path from the tower to the altar.

Having decided on the final concept, we began building a physical model of the installation. The proposed columns were laser cut in order to make even holes in each of them. Afterwards, we attached the wire shooting out of the altar to each of them including the tower.

The web system will be supported by lace columns and get denser in the less used areas allowing natural light and shadows.

After further analysis of the site we changed our installation design and decided to wrap the altar-the main focus for a religious ritual, with a web constructed to connect each part of the ruins to it.

The floating pieces would stick out from the windows gradually overpowering the site with the bomb explosion.

Our first proposal for the memorial was to create an image of explosion inside the church and make an overwhelming impression of the bomb attack by exploding the walls elements out

photomontage of St Luke's bombed out church in Liverpool

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral