A conceptual design for a public space that had been re-designed in 2003, completed by hand and in SketchUp whilst at Inchbald.

A site with centuries of history, from Roman occupation in 55BC to the centre of the book-trade in mediaeval times; burnt to the ground in the great fire of London in 1666 and destroyed during the blitz; a place to buy rosary beads, a meat market; controversially re-built in the 1960’s and 1990’s.

Paternoster Square is a POPS, a privately owned public space and accessed from several pedestrian passages.

I used the religious IXOYĒ symbol as the starting point to cater for pedestrian flow, acknowledging the religious backdrop of St Paul’s and harnessing physical movement in a more aesthetic but practical way. Affording better reasons to stay, relax and reflect in the space,