Designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture, they embraced the idea as light as a mediator for the central organizing principle for their proposal. The new Cathedral, a delicate dance between old and new, each contributes to its role in the creation of the new. The act of covering the precious ruins with a diaphanous, copper material creates the new space and form of the Cathedral which emerges as a dialogue between existing remains and new veil. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Light, like God, is unseen but enables all things to be seen. Light is a mediator between the visible and invisible, reason and faith, present and past, earth and heaven, human and divine. The space between the ruins and the enclosure forms the space of the new Cathedral of Port-au-Prince. The original structure is presented as precious; an active component in the creation of the character of the interior space of the new Cathedral.
