. AN ARCHIVE OF HOPE
Engraved with stories of prayers and answers, the Bricks are books written with text of living stories of the everyday reality, yet, a reality with Hope. Hope is the most significant spiritual grain we rely on when facing the sometime harsh life, it provides us strength and will - the Light to live on.
Stripped off with any flamboyant or extravagant architectural articulation, The Wall would be an archive of these mundane yet intriguing stories, like a humble library with collection of the classics - The Archive of Light.
. THE SHELVES OF STORIES
Constructed simply out of light steel, the Shelves hold up the million bricks in a monumental yet sensual manner. The bricks are placed at an oblique angle that display each of their own stories nonchalantly to the visitors when passing by, while allowing light to filter through their slits when ascending.
The Shelves are seamlessly connecting the bricks in display, the viewing corridors and the ascending ramps. Like flipping pages after pages of an intriguing book, the visitors are invitedly ramping up reading real stories of the people and Jesus’s.
. THE MEDITATION MONUMENT
Positioning the Shelves in the scale and composition in reference to the classical Christian churches, e.g. St Paul’s Cathedral, and chapels, it creates pockets of meditation spaces for visitors to consider and reflect. Instead of cladded with extravagant ornamentation depicting the biblical stories, these are sacred spaces solely constructed out of the bricks narrating the actual communications and stories between the people and Jesus - a contemporary Cathedral and Wonder.
. THE LIGHT OF LINKAGE
Light bulbs installed in every quadrant of the Shelves not only lighten up parts of the corridors for clear viewing, but, more importantly, also as indicators for and linkages between the different types of visitors.
Automated, on one hand, by simple motion sensors, the bulbs would glow when actual visitors are passing by and reading the bricks. Automated also separately by digital systems, the bulbs in that particular quadrant would glow when online visitors are viewing the exact bricks through the virtual platform.
The bulbs would be turned on and off like a light installation as well as a real-time indicator of visitors. This monumental light installation could be seen from a far-off distance by passers-by as well as online visitors via virtual platform, while actual visitors experiencing from within - a national Landmark connecting the various types of visitors.
. THE ARCHIVE OF LIGHT
Presented in a bi-fold meaning, the Light, on one hand, demonstrates itself as Hope, while, on the other, the actual light that is controlled and filtered by the bricks. The bricks are the only integral substance of the entire Wall, they are the content as well as the architecture.
The Wall is an archive of common building substance, the bricks, with stories of the common people and Jesus.
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