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Christ of Silence`s Chapel

Christ of Silence`s Chapel

 


From the proposed preliminary program we stress the wish to turn an inoperative electric power transformation station into a space for quietness and silence, available to the local community and as a support to the pastoral activities offered by the religious community that integrates it.

A parallelepiped volume of 25 square meters, and 4 meters high inside, constitutes the support and opportunity to regenerate a devitalized space.

We sought the involving shape, unified around the altar, conferring once more tangibility to the profound reforms of the II Vatican Council.

It was proposed to reorganize the interior space of the old technical area, filtering the exterior light and covering of white the walls.

A larch wood stool embraces the area, calling the identity of a community assembled around the altar.

Outside, a structure of iron and zinc wire will lead the growth of the final covering with a deciduous climbing plant, conferring a new identity to the primitive volume.

The exterior final covering in Japanese creeper, looks for, in the seasons of the year and in the Biblical metaphoric of "the wine-dresser", the universal dimension of the Church.