Three new pieces have entered the cathedral in Montepulciano: an altar, an ambo and a cathedra. The building itself remains unchanged. The competition entry focuses on the presbytery alone, positioning the three pieces in dialogue with the baptismal font and the congregation. This allows people to move around and participate without the space losing its significance when it is empty. The materials speak for themselves. The earth tones are borrowed from the Tuscan hills around the town. The altar is a monolithic slab with a vein of gold running across it.

I managed the relationship with the artist, Edoardo Piermattei. We scanned his works with Polycam and Reality Capture, studied their surfaces in Grasshopper and simulated the veil of the altar as a fabric in Kangaroo, then brought the pieces into Archicad as objects. I produced the renderings and kept them ethereal, with the cathedral dissolving into light, so that attention stays on the three pieces.