January 18: Sveta Nedelya Plaza Competition INTRO

Today we decided to begin work on a Plaza Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria. I perused the general guidelines, at the time, written in Bulgarian and translated them to English for the whole NC-office to understand. The competition involved the design of a plaza next to the church Sveta Nedelya (St. Sunday Church) located in the very prominent center of the Bulgarian capital itself. The church sits on the remains of a Roman Decumanus (Via Principalis, or Main Road) and ancient ROman and Pagan temple ruins, all of which we decided was crucial to our future design and those numerous historical layers MUST be taken into urgent consideration.