holy crap this is only going to be interesting to someone who cares to take a way-too indepth look at ronchamp. i don't think the impression is going anywhere in my head, i'll come back and write after getting a little more of the gist of my week down.... and hide this behind a cut ha
the entrance sequence to the chapel was exquisitly plotted - almost aggravating in it's deliberateness, felt a little heavy handed to make this artificial hill to block your view and the pilgrim's hostel crowded the road a little much - but the chapel revealed itself in a lovely manner, from the top down like a star wars scene slide. i wonder how having studied the chapel in pictures so much affected the impression - having no idea what it would look like would be completely astonishing. the walls and overbearing roof look overly massive, until you realize how many huge holes are in the walls, and inside you see the roof is held up on thin pillars. walking around the sculpted west side with a suprising gun-barrel/nostril shaped waterspout/gargoyle into a contrasting brutal concrete basin with pyrimidal and other geometric concrete blocks breaking up the water flow.
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