2014 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious ...
The project consists of a Nectorium and a Nectarium, hypothetically located on the southeast coast of the Greek island Thassos, across from an ancient white marble quarry. The Nectorium is a conservatory, a temple for safekeeping The Forbidden, which is a collection of nectar from native flowering plants curated in the botanical garden-the Nectarium. Nectar is a sweet liquid secreted by flowering plants to attract pollinators. Humans consume a derivative of nectar processed by bees–honey. Nectar, the desired drink of the Olympian Gods, is forbidden to humans. Completely exploiting the nature of human curiosity and mythological fantasies, the temple and garden invite visitors to desire The Forbidden, to seek it, and to enjoy its aroma, but prohibit visitors from obtaining it.
The white-marble Nectorium sits on the brow of a cleared white-marble hilltop, adjacent is the productive land of the Nectarium, terraced and cultivated with the precision and decisiveness exercised when mining a quarry. The temple takes the abstracted form of ancient Roman amphorae. Each chimney-like ‘cell’ in the structure creates a stack effect that draws aromas up from the nectar stored in the sunken nectar-well. In the nectarwells, visitors can sit and enjoy the aromas. Next to the temple is a polished, articulated marble mount in place of the existing pinnacle, re-emphasizing the dipole relationship of garden and temple, nature and man-made object, landscape and architecture, and the growing ambiguity of the two.
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Entry from Nectarium Visitor Center & Offices Entry Path Marble Mount Temple Podium Level Reflecting Pool Nectar Chamber Level Grand Stairs and Path to ocean below Ramp to Observatory Observatory Suspended Metal Exit Path Stairs to Entry Level
INSIDE THE NECTARIUM GARDEN
INSIDE THE NECTORIUM AROMA CHAMBER
2014 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture
Student Work - Award
The white-marble Nectorium sits on the brow of a cleared white-marble hilltop, adjacent is the productive land of the Nectarium, terraced and cultivated with the precision and decisiveness exercised when mining a quarry. The temple takes the abstracted form of ancient Roman amphorae. Each chimney-like ‘cell’ in the structure creates a stack effect that draws aromas up from the nectar stored in the sunken nectar-well. In the nectarwells, visitors can sit and enjoy the aromas. Next to the temple is a polished, articulated marble mount in place of the existing pinnacle, re-emphasizing the dipole relationship of garden and temple, nature and man-made object, landscape and architecture, and the growing ambiguity of the two.
Circulation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Entry from Nectarium Visitor Center & Offices Entry Path Marble Mount Temple Podium Level Reflecting Pool Nectar Chamber Level Grand Stairs and Path to ocean below Ramp to Observatory Observatory Suspended Metal Exit Path Stairs to Entry Level
INSIDE THE NECTARIUM GARDEN
INSIDE THE NECTORIUM AROMA CHAMBER
2014 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture
Student Work - Award
