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Cologne Cathedral · Floor-plan interpretation

Excavation

Visual description

Layers of sand, grey and ochre make the cathedral plan resemble an archaeological discovery.

Intention & perception

What changes when architecture appears to be excavated rather than built?

Part of Wolfram Schäfers’s exploration of historic floor plans. Architectural lines leave their original context and become an open invitation to see anew.

Excavation: Layers of sand, grey and ochre make the cathedral plan resemble an archaeological discovery.