Sankt Jodokus

As part of a competition connected with the 500th anniversary of the consecration of St. Jodokus Catholic Church, we were commissioned – together with the Berlin-based sculptor Prof. Norbert Radermacher - to come up with a new design concept for its sacred spaces, a lighting design as well as to restore the church in accordance with the requirements of monument conservation. Our goals were to strengthen and to clearly delineate the particularities and ritual concentration of the interior spaces and sculptures. We thus set out to emphasize the spatial qualities together with their specific features, liturgical significance and determination. Our designs for each figure, niche, colour, piece of furniture and object were guided by considerations concerning the correct position, the degree of concentration sought, the intensity of the encounter, the right light, the emotional and spiritual proximity of the object and the effect from afar. At all times, the inherent, substantive requirements dictate the design solutions. Through an enhanced intensity of the newly designed spaces and the sculptures’ clear presence, we not only promote the community’s interrelationships as a whole but also foster the individual worshipper’s relationship to this consecrated site. Our designs always incorporate a gesture with which visitors are welcomed to the various sites. By the discretion of their abstract forms, the designs make perceptible the warmth of a presence that is in attendance.