A New Aedicule For Walsh Family Hall

After learning the proportions of Vignola’s orders, our first design project was an aedicule located on the western facing facade of Notre Dame’s Walsh Family Hall. The aedicule houses a statue of Hestia, a goddess associated with Marc-Antoine Laugier’s Essay on Architecture which explores the fundamental relationship of humans and the built environment. Behind the statue are a series of frescoes that depict wood and leaf materials used in constructing Laugier’s Primitive Hut, a reference to arguably the first architectural ‘idea’.

Process work in establishing proportions and greater geometries within the proposed aedicule.