Irish Monasteries have an important role in the history of the modern world. Throughout the dark ages, priests stored and reproduced the texts from the old world – saving many of them from extinction. As a result from this practice, many religious settlements were established in Ireland. In establishing these settlements, time and numerology played a large role. Priests were to pray seven times a day: from sunrise to after sunset. The ideal settlement was to be divided into quadrants, in which fourteen units are placed around a centralized cluster: the church.

Using an analytical drawing as a matrix, information is drawn forward to create
a field , giving birth to an articulated ground. One of the rays of the construct is further explored as an intervention concerned with the idea of occupying a layered wall that emerges from the ground. Through layered constructions, visitors experience a plethora of spacial and light conditions. The dialog set forth by the layers relates to the illuminated manuscripts the irish crafted in their monasteries.