The doors of the cathedral

Authors’ Comment

The design sought to create heavy, massive, long-lasting doors, resonating with the architecture of the Romanian Ecclesiastical Center in Munich. The thick solid wood panels have no visible fixing elements and are symbolically replaced with "light" bonds of copper pipe filled with coloured resin. The initial massiveness is dissipated by the subtle connections of the light strings that appear day and night on the outside and inside. The multitude of details, the thousands of carved symbols laid out on the copper grid, the variety of textures and patterns enrich the perception of the doors, making them objects worth discovering, using, touching.

The handles are hollowed out towards the inside of the thick wooden doors and handmade from thick copper sheet. For the main doors, a third handle, protruding from the plane of the door, was placed at a lower level to facilitate use by children. All the doors are built to meet both design, accessibility, durability and escape requirements.