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Project • By Marco Maio Architects • Chapels
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 NENAD FABIJANIĆ • Memorials
ZOVIK Chapel and Cemetery
A broad surface, not threatened by anything, is a motif and inspiration for an appropriate and proportional architectural intervention that at the start respects the value of open natural surroundings, their micro-location, views and landscape scenes in all directions. Planned zoning is subordinated to layers, slopes and orientations and at the same time conditioned by the existing communication lines. The burial ritual is processed in a civilized, liturgical ceremony and within traditional customs.
The pinnacle of the north-western corner of the land lot is the dominant mass of the farewell chapel with its accompanying facilities (the morgue and the sanitary area) and an open access terrace.
The distribution of grave alleys is rationally... 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 Storaket Architectural Studio • Regionals
Chapel in Artsakh
In this church in Artsakh, we stayed true to the longstanding values of Armenian monumental architecture and recalled traditional hierarchies of space, but also presented a contemporary structure rooted in our era. Though the interior of the church follows a typical Armenian Orthodox floor plan, the exterior form of the church is abstracted, changing the way that the traditional structure meets both the earth and the sky. We give visitors time to process this contrast between an unfamiliar exterior and a familiar interior as they pass through a descending, partially subterranean entry space towards a reflecting pool directly outside the nave’s entry. Overall, the space is a contemplative one which investigates notions of past and present,... More