Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2016

parish-church-of-san­­ta-moni­­ca-rivas-vacia­­ma­­drid / Vicens+Ramos

Pro­get­ti­sta  Igna­cio Vicens
Loca­tion  Cal­le Liber­tad 17, 28523 Rivas-Vacia­­ma­­drid, Madrid
Desi­gn Team  

Igna­cio Vicens y José Anto­nio Ramos

Anno  2008
Cre­di­ti Fotografici  

Pablo Vicens

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The Church of San­ta Moni­ca at Rivas Vacia­ma­drid is loca­ted in a lon­gi­tu­di­nal plot of a new­ly esta­bli­shed resi­den­tial area and althou­gh the church has been the last work of the area, it was the fir­st to be desi­gned. The church nee­ded to have a lon­gi­tu­di­nal sche­me becau­se it had to occu­py the maxi­mum plot and capa­ci­ty; it also requi­red a direc­tio­nal pat­tern even if it was not the most litur­gi­cal­ly desi­red. The pro­gram besi­des nee­ding a parish church, it was also con­si­de­red neces­sa­ry to have areas for mana­ge­ment and cate­che­sis and two hou­sing pro­jec­ts for priests.
All the ear­ly con­di­tions given allo­wed for the emer­gen­ce of the main idea and bring forth answers to all que­stions asked; tur­ning limi­ta­tions into great opportunities.

The sha­pe of the sche­me deter­mi­ned the plans per­for­man­ce by allo­wing the work to be born from the edge, from point zero and along its bor­der ends in an explo­sion of north-facing sky­lights. The sono­rous pie­ce sho­ws a clear and cate­go­ri­cal uni­que­ness of the buil­ding appro­pria­te for the sub­ject of holi­ness; to meet the light in whe­re its essen­ce is lac­ked of. As a result the re-inte­r­­pre­­ta­­tion of the histo­ry of long altar­pie­ces is now to search ways in which to uni­te earth and sky, mat­ter and light, the sum­mit of the sacred. The trap for­med by the sky­lights is lights spe­cial gift given to mat­ter, so when both come into con­tact, mat­ter infi­ni­te­ly disap­pears. In the encoun­ter, the limit, the bor­der is blur­red by eli­mi­na­ting mat­ters exi­sten­ce and it beco­ming too light.
This box of light is disclo­sed at the sacrum mee­ting, which is sto­red in a fla­­ke-cut steel skin so uni­que that expres­ses the art worn with the pas­sa­ge of time. 

The sacred spa­ce desi­res of sacred art to fill the room, so all the sculp­tu­res and litur­gi­cal fur­ni­shings were desi­gned and crea­ted by con­tem­po­ra­ry artists such as José Luis Sán­chez, Javier Viver, José Manuel Ciri­no, Fer­nan­do Pago­la, Javier Mar­ti­nez and Jose Anto­nio Ramos.

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