Scale 1:100
Dimensions: 140/160 cm 
Scale 1:100
Dimensions: 140/160 cm 
Scale 1:100
Dimensions: 140/160 cm 
Scale 1:100
Dimensions: 140/160 cm 
Scale 1:100
Dimensions: 140/160 cm 
Scale 1:100
Dimensions: 140/160 cm 

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rooftop plan; plan level 2
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fragment; roof - section
fragment; roof - section
fragment; gallery - plan
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construction scheme
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Department of Public Buildings
 UACEG | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2022 - 2023
Tutors: Panayot Savov, Plamen Bratkov

Kells Art Cathedral

Master Thesis Project

The project is an entry for a competition – Art Cathedral, organized by YAC. The assignment tries to create a future for the ruins of Kells Priory - a medieval monument  in Ireland, by giving it a new program - an art center. It is expected to become a place for artists to create and for visitors to observe the result as well as to get a glimpse into the creation process. 

Two main topics were examined through the process.

The first one follows the two streams of movement - of the visitors and of the artists - and their interaction. The solution in the project follows the research of such relationship where the monastery, as a structure, bears within itself - limiting civil access to defined areas of interaction between monks and ordinary citizens. 


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The second theme seeks to define the ruin as a concept and meaning. Ruin is not a state, but an active process; not as a destruction, but as a transformation. Reverting the structure to its initial state should interrupt this process and return it to the initial position, ignoring the meaning of the transformation. The project considers the process of ruination of Kells Priroy as valuable to monitor and track over time. Organizing the intervention in the environment in a way to, solely direct the eye to this process, without entering directly into it intentionally. Our eyes enter the environment in two simultaneous ways: when viewing it from afar (zoom out) and from the contact we make with each of the individual elements (zoom in). We see a wholeness and landscape, but at the same time, we see each little detail of it. This is how the liveliness of character of the place is emphasized. 

The result of my research led to the appearance of two types of structures with following features: 

1. Planes at different levels
appear outside the structure of the monastery
sign of the future process of ruination
framing overall views of the ruins 
ascetic spaces 

2. Crystallized elements
appear within the confines of the monastery
sign of the past 
framing individual elements of the ruins 
bright spaces