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Project • By Clanes ArquitecturaChapels

Capilla Fátima

The program consisted of creating a separate funeral chapel from the rest of the chapels in what used to be a parking lot. Therefore,it was decided to take advantage of the building's structure and create three significant moments. Iván Marruenda Iván Marruenda The altar is the protagonist of the space, a farewell that speaks of the ascension of the spirit. The verticality of the details creates a perception of height. The space was conceived as a tribute to the mortal remains, subtly illuminated by zenithal light. Iván Marruenda Iván Marruenda The main hall is a place for hugs, support, and closeness. A lattice separates the altar from this hall, achieving spatial independence but not tempo... More

Project • By AcrónimoChapels

San José Chapel

ConceptLocated in the center of the “Madre Tierra” field, a place of orange, avocado, and lemon crops, where one beholds the mountains’ profile and the greenery of Montemorelos, Nuevo León. This project was born of a spiritual need: build a reflection space for the family and the community. The spirituality, men’s intimate dimension, calls for a respectful and perceptive architectural approach. The in-depth study of Christian liturgy and the northeastern countryside founded the design process of this project. To reach an applicable proposal, we observed respective religious protocols and rural settings: we analyzed solar path, wildlife, the seven sacraments, and the Catholic Mass ceremonial rites. The “... More

Project • By JJP Architects & PlannersChapels

CES Chapel at Bade Campus

The chapel at the Bade Campus functions as the spiritual and circulatory heart of the campus. The architectural design features steel columns extruded to the roofs, and reinforced with buttresses to form a long-span diagrid slab system mimicking the ribbed vaults in gothic architecture. Natural light diffuses through the glass clerestory and brightens the space throughout the day. As the morning light penetrates the stone façade, the chapel is filled with a spiritual aura while a bright cross is projected deep into the space, evoking the biblical passage “I'm the light of the world” Vesper W.S. Hsieh Shawn Liu Shawn Liu Shawn Liu Shawn Liu Shawn Liu Shawn Liu JJP JJP JJP... More

Project • By padilla nicás arquitectosChapels

Family chapel in field of Abanilla

The project is based on a request from a family of stonemasons, caretakers of the pilgrimage shrine that severs for annual local celebrations. For various reasons it was decided to build a new chapel in an extremely arid and beautiful spot in the northern province of the Murcia countryside, not far from where the original shrine is located. The desert-like environment made us immediately think of something related to the dry land of the place itself and the stone blocks the activity of our client generates. Caption We proposed a curve unlike the neighboring buildings constructed entirely in concrete and sandstone fragments from the family quarry. The gaps in the concrete volume would hold lattice carved stone blocks of the same type.... More

Project • By ArchiGuruCommunity Centres

Tepalcingo Chapel

After the earthquake damaged the biggest church in town a call was made for volunteers to help create a temporary chapel so that the community could resume their daily worship and mass service.  Knowing that the repair of the original church would take a long time it was important to build a structure that could not only last for many years but also withstand another strong earthquake in the future.  The new chapel took over the courtyard space of the former home of the clergy which was across the street from the damaged church.  It was important for the community to have a large space for Sunday mass that could accommodate hundreds of visitors and worshippers.  Caption Caption The interior of the new chapel i... More

Project • By Alexander Gorlin ArchitectsSynagogues

Temple Beth El

Temple Beth El, in upstate New York, is one of a handful of architecturally significant synagogues in the United States. We were commissioned to renovate and design a new educational addition in a manner that respected and preserved the original design by renowned 20th century architect, Louis Kahn.   A spacious, light-filled lobby connects the synagogue with a newly added structure that houses six classrooms, a large library, a social hall, a pre-function room, and a kitchen. The project also included the addition of a nursery school and the accommodation of the synagogue’s administrative offices all while remaining sensitive to the scale and character of the existing structure. The religious school is housed in the renovated... More

Project • By Ángel Rubio SánchezChapels

Navigable promenade

The island of the sun is located on Lake Titicaca, considered thehighest lake in the world. This island presents great elevation changes in which spaces with different environments and views originate in which the breadth of the lake can be observed. This place is considered a sanctuary dedicated to the God of the Sun. Throughout the island there are some trails that run from north to south through its places, ruins, viewpoints and towns that end at the lowest levels, bordering the shores of the lake. The intervention proposes an extension of these paths, a walk that enters the lake, as if it were the lake itself. The sacred space is incorporated into the lake, integrating into the pre-existing language. The traces of air, water and ligh... More

Project • By Marco Maio ArchitectsChapels

SAINT RITA´S CHAPEL

Prague's Saint Augustine School project began 10 years ago as a Christian and Augustinian educational alternative school with a vocational strategy. With a long pedagogy history and practice, with more than 270 schools and 10 universities around the world, the Augustinian school is to be a harmonious synthesis between thought and practice, ideal and reality. The main task of the educator is to support the originality and creativity of each pupil, to help find his own deeper identity - School with all the senses, the mind and the heart. The architectural solutions for the main existing building were settled in the sense that the new spaces should induct people, in particular the students, to interact and have the continuous sense of hu... More

Project • By Listen CommunicationChapels

Christine Chapel

The Chapel is not only a symbolic building of Yeonsei University but also a place to be inspired by the Christian spirit represented by the missionary Underwood who arrived in the country 136 years ago. The building has been praised for embodying the spiritual value of aesthetics that the university pursues. The design of Christine Chapel is focused on adjusting balance while meeting the needs of its primary purpose as a chapel and to be served as a multi-purpose hall. In addition, the design takes into consideration the relation between environment, space, and human in order to harmonize them as a whole. These aspects of the design that the designer has value can be found from the use of material. Oppose to the heaviness of hardwood and s... More

NewsInnovations • 27 Jul 2020

Finnish Forest Chapel a showcase of wood construction and volunteer spirit

Located in Finland, the Forest Chapel is a new addition to a popular campground called Tervajärvi. Hosting confirmation camps, small weddings or christenings, the chapel is a showcase of wood construction and volunteer spirit. Credit: Essi Nisonen As the assembly of the chapel was carried out by volunteers, professionals prepared in advance to ensure ease of assembly with glulam parts, for example, coming prefabricated from a factory. Credit: Essi Nisonen The single most important component of the chapel is the glulam timber roof truss. The truss design was based on structures found in nature, with a cross-section of the components in a harmonious proportion to their height. In the final design, beams curving along with the... More

Project • By BWM Designers & ArchitectsMuseums

Vergilius Chapel/ Wien Museum

The listed Gothic architectural jewel was made accessible to the public through a new direct entrance and preserved as a place of contemplation.The Vergilius Chapel was discovered in 1973 during the construction of the Vienna subway network and integrated into the Stephansplatz subway station. This capella subterranea(subterranean chapel) of the Magdalenenkapelle (the outline of which is still visible on the pavement of the Stephansplatz)dates back to 1250 and is one of the best-preserved Gothic interiors in all of Vienna. It may originally have been intended as a chapel for burials, but by the 14th century it was already being used as a crypt for a wealthy Viennese mercantile family. The chapel was adorned with Byzantine-influenced crosses... More

Project • By Himematsu Architecture Inc.Chapels

Chapel & Communication Center at Kyotanabe

This is a chapel and christian cultural center at Doshisha University in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Japan. University hopes this facilities become symbol of Doshisha University insisting "Basic moral education by Christianity" and is handed down for 100 years, 200 years at Kyotanabe campus. We hope student at kyotanabe campus feel to study at Christial university by watching and using these facilities.We also hope these buildings will be told in graduates in memories. Silent ForestThese facilities are proposed as reincarnation of Kyotanabe forest.Myriad of colums covering building surface create sunlight filtering down through the coloums. The light has different expression depending on season and time.  Chapel space helps that people meet w... More

Project • By 21 ArquitecturaCemeteries

Lobato´s Chapel

From the creative process of this project,they present the guiding concepts that are: divinity and perpetuity; The first is achieved with an acute angle cover with the intention of touching the sky, and perpetuity is achieved visually with a strong, heavy and natural material, thus being the concrete that has a great resistance to the passage of time. Each evening within the place has a special intention, meaning ten years of life each; being a total of 9 pieces More

Project • By Ing.arch. Michal Gaj jr.Chapels

ST. URBAN'S CHAPEL in Zbehy / Slovakia

Motto: "Just like grapes in the press, even man is under pressure... a social one. " (MG jr., October 2017)•The St. Urban's chapel, dedicated to the patron of wine-makers, is located in the rural environment of the agrarian and historically valuable landscape around Nitra, the oldest town in Slovakia. The village of Zbehy used to be a well-known wine-producing area in the past. The first written record of the village is from 1156, however, the village officially dates back to 1292.The new chapel was built at the original location of the old chapel as per the will of the citizens. This unique conceptual and technical design was authored and materialized by the project author Ing. arch. Michal Gaj jr.. In collaboration with the Former mayor a... More

Project • By MASSIMO MARIANIMemorials

Cemetery Extension

The design concerns an area of about 4,500 square metres, which is placed next to the already existing cemetery in order to complete the area allocated for this purpose. This plan, which also involves the south side, where we can find the current side entrance, it const the building of about 1,230 loculi, 720 ossuaries/cinerary urns and 12 private chapels, thus the complex will cover the citizen’s needs for the next 15 years. From the urbanistic point of view, the cemetery is divided into 2 parts. The first-one bears a clear 19th century influence and defines it as a worship place, it’s similar to other places of the surroundings and of Tuscany. The second part, dates from the 60s/80s, therefore the different languages of two different plan... More