Sacred Spaces and Poly Perspectives
An Experiential Journey through a Sacred Site
Audio Qualities of Design Tests. Mancotywa, M. Unit 13. 2021.
Mbuso Mancotywa
BArch Hons 2021Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Claudia Morgado
Unit Tutor: Ruby Mungoshi
Unit Assistant: Azraa Gabru
UNIT 13︎︎︎
Second Nature | Shared Futures
What would happen if the monastery, workshop community and animals had to share spaces on the site of the Mariannhill Catholic Church site? My research this year has explored this question from varying approaches. The journey started in the Analogue studio gaining influence from the common room and landscape project which looked at different users and shared common space. From this work I looked at the ecology of different users on my site and began a series of speculations on shared spaces. Doing a site plan highlighted different behavioural thresholds that existed on my site which introduced different moments of etiquette shifts. These lead to a series of design tests aimed at blurring the potency of the thresholds. The tests involved an exploration of designs that gave equal weighting on the visible as the non-visible qualities of the experiential journey of arriving on the site. The series of tests looked at whether non-visible characteristics are an essential element of sacred sites or if they are merely visual.
![Common Room for my family within our home. Mancotywa, M. Unit 13. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe8f3123d89b0e0dbedef1e70e4ea3dbdffcb5527d25f8a9909d5a2c343186e6/2.-Common-Room-for-my-family-within-our-home.-Mancotywa--M.-Unit-13.-2021-min.jpg)
![Plural-sacred shared space. Mancotywa, M. Unit 13. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0740be2293c15d977ed239d11d7b6c7c45ae420e795d4070984514617d0db533/5.-Plural-sacred-shared-space.-Mancotywa--M.-Unit-13.-2021-min.jpg)
![Marianhill Monastery Site Plan. Mancotywa, M. Unit 13. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91601a3d430753ba117722765f5b57af2a052c4d7a2a2f4b049ba3c7ac247151/6.-Marianhill-Monastery-Site-Plan.-Mancotywa--M.-Unit-13.-2021-min.jpg)
Keywords:
Sacred, Poly-Perspective, Plural-sacred, Behavioural Threshold, Multi-sensory
Sacred, Poly-Perspective, Plural-sacred, Behavioural Threshold, Multi-sensory
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