January 25: Beginning Analysis

Today I developed some studies of the historical layers of the current plaza focusing on the Roman times, stretching into the 1800's when the church was destroyed under Ottoman rule and continuing with its further degradation in the 1900's. The Sveta Nedelya Church we see today was erected in the Mid 1900's. These diagrams attempt to juxtapose all layers of the church's history. We discussed the ideas and began understanding the parameters of our task for a plaza design.