Designing Churches

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='God Conquers' date='19 April 2010 - 01:48 AM' timestamp='1271656137' post='2096005']
I designed a cathedral on Auto Cad in High School for an end-of-year project. It was awesome. By far the most complex undertaking in the class.
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ROFL! That's where my obsession started. I did the same thing on autocad. I really wish I had access to that program. Sketchup is nice, but autocad is far superior.

[Ephrem Augustine]

I once built a church and monastery out of legos on Lego Digital Designer.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Ephrem Augustine' date='19 April 2010 - 09:50 AM' timestamp='1271685008' post='2096181']
I once built a church and monastery out of legos on Lego Digital Designer.
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I'd never heard of this program, but I'm totally downloading it right now.

[Ephrem Augustine]

[quote name='Raphael' date='19 April 2010 - 08:52 AM' timestamp='1271685153' post='2096182']
I'd never heard of this program, but I'm totally downloading it right now.
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LOL
I think that my church had been destroyed when my computer crashed, if i had it i would give it to you to see lol!

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Raphael' date='18 April 2010 - 03:13 PM' timestamp='1271617989' post='2095687']
[img]http://hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net/hs486.snc3/26594_537523353180_144901938_31635770_33184_n.jpg[/img]



Anybody else draw churches in their spare time for fun?
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So.. .what are your dimensions?

Going to work on the interior soon?

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='19 April 2010 - 01:36 PM' timestamp='1271698591' post='2096261']
So.. .what are your dimensions?

Going to work on the interior soon?
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If I recall, the front is about 200' wide, the church is about 250' deep, and it's about 250' high (at the towers).

The interior will take some time. This will probably become a long-term project. I've already added a few more touches and major changes to the front facade, as well as making the back of the Church a semicircular tower with a half-cylinder roof. Unfortunately, I can't make it too detailed or the file would be impossibly large and the program would freeze. I'll also add water spouts (which would be gargoyles if I could do that much detail), add spires to the flying buttresses, put in more windows, etc. Then I'll move on to the interior. I'm going to make the columns more elaborate, build an apse, place an organ in the transept, add an altar choir, a high altar, and some small chapels around the outside. Then I'll work on the crypt church.

I'm not putting in pews. You can call it ancient tradition if you want, but copying and pasting that many rows of seats is sure to make Abraham of my design - it'll slaughter my RAM.

[Apotheoun]

Nice graphical design.

Rexi is right that a dome would be out of place in Raphael's drawing, but I do love domes.

[jeffpugh]

Don't put pews. But save some RAM for a rood screen

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='19 April 2010 - 11:51 AM' timestamp='1271699498' post='2096265']
Don't put pews. But save some RAM for a rood screen
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Yes, a lovely rood screen would be nice:

[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/361112542_bbc084106d.jpg?v=0[/img]

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='19 April 2010 - 01:56 PM' timestamp='1271699763' post='2096268']
Yes, a lovely rood screen would be nice:

[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/361112542_bbc084106d.jpg?v=0[/img]
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This one is epic. Note the (western)icons.

[SoonerCatholic]

That's a beautiful church design and a very cool rood screen.

I have always thought that if my university parish could ever build a new church I would want it built in "Cherokee gothic" style like the university buildings see: [url="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OU_Bizzell_Library.jpg"]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OU_Bizzell_Library.jpg[/url]
The church was built in the 70s and is rather unattractive, the library looks more like a church......
[img]http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/files/2009/09/OU_Great_Reading_Room.jpg[/img]

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='SoonerCatholic' date='19 April 2010 - 04:17 PM' timestamp='1271708220' post='2096324']
That's a beautiful church design and a very cool rood screen.

I have always thought that if my university parish could ever build a new church I would want it built in "Cherokee gothic" style like the university buildings see: [url="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OU_Bizzell_Library.jpg"]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OU_Bizzell_Library.jpg[/url]
The church was built in the 70s and is rather unattractive, the library looks more like a church......
[img]http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/files/2009/09/OU_Great_Reading_Room.jpg[/img]
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Very ornate style!