Works

M.ARCH
Shrine Project

For the first design project of the academic year, staff and students on the Master of Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) at Canterbury School of Architecture and Design collaborated with the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury. The Roman Catholic church houses two important sets of relics of St Thomas Becket (1119–1170) and St Oskar Romero (1917–1980) and was designated a Diocesan Shrine in 2019.
The parish approached the course to help developing ideas for the reorganisation of its Martyrs’ Chapel to present a more attractive liturgical space and experience for worshippers and visitors. Here a selection of images of the eleven group proposals students presented to Canon Anthony Charlton, Joanna Cooke, and other parishioners at the St Thomas Hall on Friday 14 October 2022.

"The standard and competence of the designs and the rendering of each of the 11 schemes really blew us away. As a group, we expected one stand-out project to emerge, providing us with a clear direction to take, and allowing us to move forward with the shrine redesign. However, what we were presented with was eleven uniquely fascinating projects, each with its own individual merits and possibilities. In Father Anthony’s words, we were presented with a ‘feast’ of imaginative concepts, all of which we could feasibly take to completion."

Joanne Cooke, on behalf of the Church of St Thomas
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SHRINE
11 PROPOSALS FOR THE MARTYRS' CHAPEL AT THE CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY

01 | ET LUX IN TENBERIS LUCET – AND THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
by Dimple Manmovanlal, Maksymilan Molsa & Diya Seepaul

02 | CIBORIUM
by Muhammad Jamaal Dastagir, Siobhan Dourado, Hardik Kaushik Mehta & Roksoliana Mytsyk

03 | THE SHRINE
by Aneri Chandrakant Prajapati, Ajay Maheshbhai Lathiya & Devanshkum Prajapati

04 | THE FABRIC CHAPEL
by Valentina Condrea, Louis Quill & Elliot Waters

05 | LUX IN TENEBRIS
by Mohammed Quous Lawal, Niki Pappas, Shreyam Patel & Kaustuv Ruhela

06 | EVERYONE’S DEVINE
by Ksenia Lenina, Mst Faujia Rumman & Savannah Walker

07 | SCULPTING THE LIGHT
by Dipan Gandhi, Meenu Justin, Tomoe Kamoshida & Rushi Savsani

08 | CHAPEL CHAPS
by Rebecca Alexander, Chang Gu & Ellys Gudger

09 | SACELLUM IN REVELO – CHAPEL IN RELIEF
by Trevor Bbanda, Georgia Burghardt Scriven & Joseph Olaiya

10 | ALCOVES
by Celine Elham Sadek, Chinmay Rajeshirke & Beihan Zhang

11 | LUX AURUMQUE – LIGHT AND GOLD
by Saisree Elavarasan, Niranjani Ravi & Faridah Usman Buhari
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TUTORS
Carla Novak & Gabor Stark
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M.ARCH
in collaboration with
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
https://stthomasofcanterbury.com
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CONTACT
Gabor Stark // M.ARCH Course Convener
gstark@uca.ac.uk
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Master of Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2)
https://www.uca.ac.uk/study/courses/master-of-architecture/