A new church for the parish St. Elisabeth: a new heart for the community The central idea of the project is based on two strong intentions: keep the existent wall with the entrance terrace, as a pleasant opportunity to have a view on the landscape, and create a new intimate public space which relate all the activities in the block - the new church, the oratory, the kinder garden, the public library, the tea-room and the housing. The new church and the public library dialogue directly, at a quote of 3.50 mt, on the main public space, called the ‘square of twelve trees‘. The new parish is reachable from the lighting increasing ramp along the old wall and from the stairs of the public library, a sort of ‘door’ building. Walking along the wall, where the ‘via crucis’ mosaics are hanged, the persons arrive on the old terrace, a ‘hieratic’ and silent place. On the back of the church is possible sit on a bench in the thickness of the wall and look at the landscape in a quiet dimension. The inner sacred space is a very simple volume, built on a central plan (the square), in which the modulation of the light is the protagonist: coming through an horizontal ‘cut’ on the north side, from the top in the belt tower, and from down in the bottom of the church, behind the altar. A very flexible sacred room that could be used in many different configurations, fixing just the Baptist font – to ‘crop’ a special area for the sacrament – and the stairs which lead to the two upper galleries, a re-interpretation of an ancient ‘matroneo’. There’s another access at the terrace’s level: a covered passage introduce to the interior square, contented by a new building on south side. At the ground floor a long ‘portico’ offers some sheltered public place which distributes the entrances to the oratory and to a tea-room/café. At the other grounds there be new housing. The main level is also served by the system of stairs perpendicular to the Bohlleitenweg Strasse. The system reconfirm the existent transversal passage, linking the low level with the upper level of Bohlleitenweg Strasse and distributing the kinder garden, organized in a ‘cascade’ structure: three new buildings on three different floors but strictly connected by interior passages and cover corridors, sharing little intimate gardens, exclusive use of the children. It’s also possible that part of these spaces are used for housing.
A new sacred heart for the public space
MONTEDORO, LAURA;
2012-01-01
Abstract
A new church for the parish St. Elisabeth: a new heart for the community The central idea of the project is based on two strong intentions: keep the existent wall with the entrance terrace, as a pleasant opportunity to have a view on the landscape, and create a new intimate public space which relate all the activities in the block - the new church, the oratory, the kinder garden, the public library, the tea-room and the housing. The new church and the public library dialogue directly, at a quote of 3.50 mt, on the main public space, called the ‘square of twelve trees‘. The new parish is reachable from the lighting increasing ramp along the old wall and from the stairs of the public library, a sort of ‘door’ building. Walking along the wall, where the ‘via crucis’ mosaics are hanged, the persons arrive on the old terrace, a ‘hieratic’ and silent place. On the back of the church is possible sit on a bench in the thickness of the wall and look at the landscape in a quiet dimension. The inner sacred space is a very simple volume, built on a central plan (the square), in which the modulation of the light is the protagonist: coming through an horizontal ‘cut’ on the north side, from the top in the belt tower, and from down in the bottom of the church, behind the altar. A very flexible sacred room that could be used in many different configurations, fixing just the Baptist font – to ‘crop’ a special area for the sacrament – and the stairs which lead to the two upper galleries, a re-interpretation of an ancient ‘matroneo’. There’s another access at the terrace’s level: a covered passage introduce to the interior square, contented by a new building on south side. At the ground floor a long ‘portico’ offers some sheltered public place which distributes the entrances to the oratory and to a tea-room/café. At the other grounds there be new housing. The main level is also served by the system of stairs perpendicular to the Bohlleitenweg Strasse. The system reconfirm the existent transversal passage, linking the low level with the upper level of Bohlleitenweg Strasse and distributing the kinder garden, organized in a ‘cascade’ structure: three new buildings on three different floors but strictly connected by interior passages and cover corridors, sharing little intimate gardens, exclusive use of the children. It’s also possible that part of these spaces are used for housing.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
