Sacred Existential Expression of The Cathedral Church on The Jalan Katedral No. 7-Jakarta

Abstract

This research aims to explore the corelation between the function of the ritual activities and the expression of architectural form of the Cathedral Church, Jalan Katedral no.7, Jakarta, Indonesia, The methodology used for this research are: firstly, recording the Cathedral Church building and then recreate detailed drawing to analyze the building enclosure, structure, ornaments in detail. The next step is using a combined theory of sacrality by Eliade, Hoffman, Jones to browse through the fundamental of the rituals and the entire surface, while for the fundamental & expression form, the elaboration of architectural significance approach by Salura, Evensen, Peirce is being used, The analysis are based from the structualism approach that traces the existential expression from the surface expression in the Cathedral Church. The research concludes that the exsistential expression of the Cathedral Church radiates from the building elements that are accomodating the sacred existential activities. Therefore, if the existential building elements are present and complete, the whole architectural building for the Cathedral Church can be concluded to radiate sacred existential expression that are in line with the Catholic values.