Modeling Siant Sauveur abbay in Figeac
  • Participants :
  • Yoann Maillard
  • Christine Chevrier

Building the 3D model of the church with POG architectural parametric objects

Some starting informations

Global plan of the abbaye church
Detailled plans from different parts
Outside view about the steeple and the nave's chapels
Inside view

Nave modeling

Identification of the parts that seem to have enough symetries to constitute a base and then expand the modeling around it.

Central pillars (Nave)
Adding the pillars of the aisles
Extension of the modeling with chapels
Adding nave's vaults and ...
Modeling and placing every pillar setting the transept, amount to the vaults
Implementation of the central pillars from the transept
Adding pillars from the sides of the transept
Generation of the different stained glasses, doors ans walls of the transept
Leveling of the transept
Installation of the central vault
Creation of the heart on the same bases: installation of the pillars, binding, and then leveling up to the installation of the vaults. Then, enlargement to the ambulatory and chapels
Heart
Ambulatory
Most sensitive part: the apse and the ambulatory, with their rounded shapes
Installation of the apse's vault and
secondary vaults of the ambulatory
Adding windows from the apse and
pillars supporting them
Closing of the abbaye church with outside walls of the ambulatory and ...
Installation of the ambulatory walls against the vaults
Installation of the lateral ... against the vaults
Adding central ... at the end of the ambulatory
Finishing modeling with different roofs and edges
Installation of the ambulatory roof
General roof and edges
Creating the west entrance and the Steeple
Steeple
Highlighting of the project
Inside the abbaye church viewed from the nave
Nave's Levels
North door
External illumination

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