When I first went to site it reminded me of a colosseum, the stepping down is like the seating area for the public to sit and observe the entertainment in the middle.
So I wanted to incorporate that into my design for it to be focused on my clients assets as he likes showing off. But to also make it private for him so that he doesn't feel he is being watched. In the first century Rome's Christians did not have their own cemeteries.If they owned land, they buried their relatives there, otherwise they resorted to common cemeteries, where pagans too were buried. That is how Saint Peter came to be buried in the great public "necropolis" ("city of the dead") on Vatican Hill, available to everybody. Likewise Saint Paul was buried in a necropolis along the Via Ostiense.
In the first half of the second century, as a result of various grants and donations, the Christians started burying their dead underground. That is how the catacombs were founded. Many of them began and developed around family tombs, whose owners, newly converted Christians, did not reserve them to the members of the family, but opened them to their brethren in the faith. With the passage of time, these burial areas grew larger by gifts or by the purchase of new properties, sometimes on the initiative of the Church itself. Typical is the case of Saint Callixtus: the Church took up directly the organization and administration of the cemetery, assuming a community character. After recieving our brief and visiting our individual site. We were set a task to create 3 emotive models that show how we felt about the site and surrounding land. These models are quick to make and should be for our reference to show our interpretation of the site. Model 1Surrounded Model 2Forgotten Model 3Eerie atmosphere
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