Lincoln Cathedral Research Paper

Lincoln Cathedral is without a doubt a very well-established building which has received centuries of admiration, but perhaps generically towards its size and impressive dating alone. My subjective experience of the space both internally and externally made me realise that my appreciation and warming towards the structure was provoked from a relational feeling as if the cathedral possessed life-like qualities itself. The visual expression of structure, use of living materials, the sound it embodies and even the response of nearby beings in its community are just a few of the many personifying factors which helped me understand why I admire the building so much as a piece of architecture and perhaps as a being. From looking at each characteristic …show more content…
The cathedrals structure of true archways combined with the adjacent flying buttresses successfully control its load while keeping the building in equilibrium and fully standing. As it nears the grounding of the building, each buttress shape steps out of the central perimeter in a leg-like manner as if it is expressing its reaction to keep the heavy body above it stabilised. When each archway and buttress is looked at in terms of load and direction, this flow almost implies a circulation of veins and arteries pumping mass through the parts in order to keep it alive as a being. In the day and ages in which its construction developed, the designers could not simply span across large areas and use of more minimalistic fillings because of material availability, but the clarity and complexity of each structural aspect in their expression adds to my admiration and relational theory of Lincoln …show more content…
The materiality of the stone creates a cold space inside as there would be no capability of creating major sources of heat in such a colossal space. In addition to this, the fireplaces and chimneys that neighbouring buildings possess would have been insufficient when considering comfort of a cathedral. Due to this limitation many centuries ago, this chilly atmosphere aided me in capsulizing its medieval era, allowing myself to draw together my local history and past experience of the Major Oak and its culture which is nearly parallel to the day and age. The two ancestors spanning from Lincoln to Nottinghamshire then seem closer than they are present in the less built environment that once stood under my feet. With this being said, the two monuments now stand prominently and condescend an environment must more established – be it newly grown oaks or 20th century residences. This inner visualisation of the space and its initial era would not have been provoked without the full relation its qualities gave me, and even though the major oak is in fact living, I believe that both sensually and comparatively the cathedral strongly speaks to its environment in terms of architecture and as a