Notre Dame

From the Cathedral, visitors can access up onto the scaffold walkways around Notre Dame. These aim to provide people with a totally new perspective on the Cathedral and its restoration, allowing the public to get close to details and structures that would never normally be visible. The walkway swings out away from the cathedral, affording views down the Seine and across Paris. These walkways are a really crucial component in trying to rehabilitate the public perception of Restoration because they provide the public with a window into a process that normally deliberatly excludes them.

Hertzian Library

In Rome we visited the Hertzian Library, which was redesigned by Navarro Baldeweg. Its roof terrace provided incredible views over the roofscape of Rome. However, this was private and not accessible to the public. Thus I intend my scaffolding to provide similar views over Paris, but be fully accessible to the general public.

Scaffolding walkway

Work Experience

During Summer I spent a week working on site restoring the stained glass windows at Keble College chapel, Oxford. This provided me with a unique perspective of the buildings windows and other details that you would never be visible from the ground. This encouraged me to design a similar experience for people at Notre Dame

In my site elevation, the breadth of my scaffolding design and its role in uniting the different aspects of my project is most visible. This drawing, looking North from the Seine has been a crucial drawing throughout the project, because its demonstrates the diverse range of architecture and scales of building found on the island, from the large palatial civic buildings, the cathedral with Viollets interventions, and the smaller residential buildings at the far end. Via the scaffold walkway, visitors pass around the cathedral, sloping down towards the Centre for heritage and Preservation.