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CHAPTER FIVE
VISUAL CODING IN ARCHITECTUE
Form
VISUAL CODING IN ARCHITECTUE
Form
The Church building
like the design and architecture of the temple as ordained by God to
Moses did indicate the various levels of existence.
Tabernacle in the
Wilderness
Solomon’s Temple
"Scholars who study
the laws of the service are considered by Scripture as if the Bet
Hamikdash (Temple) was built in their days"
(Babylonian Talmud).
This figure indicates
four areas.
1. Outside of the
temple area of daily living. The twelve tribes encamped around.
2. Court of the
gentiles.
The Tabernacle
contained
3. The Assembly: The
Holies
4. Holy of Holies where
the ark of the covenant was and where God talked with Moses.
This structure is
reflected also in the Church construction. The basic additional
feature commonly found is the upward pin pointing to heavens. This is
a statement symbolic of “I am the Way”
The multidimensional
view of the world is also represented in three dimensions in the
modern
architecture.
 
All these examples of
church architecture indicates the suggestion of the multiple
dimensions of the existence and point towards something beyond the
mundane and experiential. The Contemporary architecture shown below
takes up the same theme with a new modern look.
(Contemporary Church Architecture )
VALLEACERON
CHAPEL , Spain
(Jubilee
Church, Rome, Italy)
(Edwin Heathcote and Laura Moffatt)
Whenever the Community
is emphasized as Church, the architecture forms a dome of spherical
enclosure with the a cross pointing upward as in the following
Orthodox architectures.
 
Ethiopian Orthodox Church as a Community of Believers – The bride of
Christ. Nagar Selassie Monastery
Shadow Hills Baptist
Church, Las Vegas
The internal architecture of churches also indicates a similar
concept. The spiraling structures around a center is one such
symbolism.
The major emphasis of
the inside of churches seems to be symbolic of church as a community
united together at the same time with different functions for the
body.
  
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