El roble capilla

The commission is a small family chapel for 40 seated people in a slightly sloping lot next to a forest of Australian mimosa trees. From the top there are views of a set of vernacular buildings (adobe houses and wine cellars) inserted in a natural landscape of vineyards, pines and nature forests. The idea consists in providing with simplicity the proper sense of religious spaces and manifest it through its communication with the natural surroundings. The instances for reflection are achieved by the quietness produced by being in this natural enviroment, creating open spaces and retaining the color and textures of the materials used in the existing architecture. The program is developed against the slope, where a curved stone wall guid... More