Cathedral Interior
Adargas was commissioned to design the building based on an existing cathedral, which was already being renovated. He brought his own visual language to the project, and designed around the original form, destroying nothing, although little of what already existed is immediately obvious (these are mostly the lower chambers, integrated seamlessly into the new building).
The cathedral consists of a spiral shaped gallery which has dozens of small openings in both the inside and outside. The light streaming in through them create a fascinating interplay of shapes and shadows in the interior of these amazing structures. Inside, around the edges of the main space, there are many smaller chambers on the lower floors from the existing building, but higher up, the spiralling gallery becomes more open, having balconies and bridges which span the large hollow interior. There are several spiral staircases leading up to these places, and some of which are uncompleted, leading to the top of the building.
Adargas invested much of his work, especially in later years, with symbolism, but the meanings of most of the mosaics which adorn the upper corridoors died with him.
The Cathedral The Catacombs beneath the Cathedral
decay:activate
