Dimension, development and identification of locus sacer in living space of the 21st century: A case study at the heart of a new housing district – Freiburg, Germany (part 2)
Dimension, development and identification of locus sacer in living space of the 21st century: A case study at the heart of a new housing district – Freiburg, Germany (part 2)

Summary/Abstract: Everyone functions within the area of the sacrum and the profanum, the material and non-material reality, having many meanings and interpretations and constituting an inherent field of human activity. While analysing a complicated network of relations and dependencies between the sacrum and the profanum, the intentionality of the location of locus sacer and its special demarcation in the architectural and urban area of the living environment of the 21st century was observed. It was demonstrated that design- ing a church in the contemporary commercialized world is not easy because its modern functionality requires the designer not only to consider the ideology, the vision of the church, tradition and biblical motives but also to highlight new methods of worship and state-of-the-art technological achievements. For that reason, contemporary sacrum significantly deviates from the traditional model of a shrine as presented in the analyses included in this article. The special and functional concept covered with the re- search shows this diversity and design methods highlight the architectural values and the dimension of locus sacer. This article supplements the research focused in this paper on analyses of the sacrum created in a new housing district in Freiburg, Germany.

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