The project includes a temple for 140 people, classrooms for children's and general education, care and counseling offices, baptistery, cafeteria, garden and a plaza that would alternate the use of parking with sports. The auditorium is the first built part of the project and is presented as a modern cube of artificial construction of binary composition.
Mission is an expansion project for religious services of a Christian congregation in a small area surrounded by mountains in the State of Veracruz. The architecture seeks to isolate the user from the environment, which is a meager urbanism that lacks the most elementary practices of planning, regulations and design of public space. The building folds to the back to expand the empty space and generate a multipurpose parking space + civic plaza + basketball practice court (3x3). The building is proposed in a horizontal, linear and transversal position to the visitor and covers the old self- construction building to openly emulate an educational institution.
The “Miesian” architecture emulates the work of modern architecture at the North American MIT and the Mexican IPN. The program includes a temple, classrooms, offices and religious services, as well as open spaces and roofs. This first stage of construction includes only the temple that initially was for 98 people but with important changes during the construction, it reached 140 people, reducing the parking capacity by 30% since most of the members arrive on foot or by public transport.
The interior of the Temple was proposed as a cube of classical modernism in order to save the work but also neutralize the visual elements of the user. Windows are raised to view the sky and avoid surrounding buildings. The pastor of the work is an efficient steel builder and he took the commission to build this temple with his own resources in a time of economic crisis in the national construction industry.
