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Religion Center

We are faced with the challenge of creating a Religion Center in the town, an original building known to all as the Casa del Cura, because of the impossibility of rehabilitating it, it was decided to make it a new floor.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

Approaching the project from a reflection in its architecture on the relationship between the roots of the past and the new buildings originated in recent years in the center. From the beginning it was decided to capture the image of the existing façade recalling the original.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

In this area, the building aims to dialogue with its natural environment of the city, from its own section and location as a landmark, trying to learn the shapes and profiles that draw the various traditional houses of the center and its town hall.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

The new headquarters is a pure, harmonious and simple building in interior composition, articulated by a large central courtyard with both arched fronts, reminding visitors of the religious building they visit.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

The sensations of light and transparency create an atmosphere of silence and relaxation. The colors of the white and light blue building in its glass details convey the purity of Christianity.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

The building contemplates a quite complete program, being a container in uses, it is formalized through the covered central courtyard as a venue and distributor towards the various rooms of workshops, offices and meeting spaces.The ground floor will be used for training the youngest and the first floor for adults. Regarding the second floor for the archive and church management offices.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

We highlight the chapel as an element of the center as a place of reflection and prayer, the simplicity in the arrangement of the wood achieve spatial recollection.

There is a backyard with a linear bench as a space of rest and stay for the visitor. From this, the existence of a multifunction space on the first floor linked to an outside terrace as a viewpoint towards the towers of the town walls can be seen.

photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda
photo_credit Fernando Alda
Fernando Alda

Project credits

Architects

Product spec sheet

Bricks
Windows
Marble

Project data

Project Year
2020
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