Hybrid Cathedral Tesselate

摘要

The Hybrid Cathedral proposed a new typology for a place of worship by connecting faith and social enterprise with commercial venture using mathematical equations to mediate the three. It is a study into how the economics of housing, aged care and a business hotel can fund the creation of a new cathedral for the recently established Melbourne Docklands, while also funding the Church's ongoing social work. Sited upon a man-made rise reestablishing Melbourne's Batman's Hill, which was demolished in the 1860s, the cathedral reveals itself externally through the spiritually significant east and west facades while the north and south facades reference the detailing of apartment buildings in the local context.