Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2016

cha­­pel-of-our-lady-of-the-most-holy-tri­­ni­­ty / Dun­can G. Stroik Archi­tect, LLC

Pro­get­ti­sta  Dun­can Stroik
Loca­tion  Tho­mas Aqui­nas Col­le­ge, San­ta Pau­la, California
Desi­gn Team  

Dun­can G. Stroik Archi­tect LLC
218 West Washing­ton Street, Sui­te 1200
South Bend, India­na 46601

Rasmus­sen & Assoc.
248 S. Mills Road
Ven­tu­ra, Cali­for­nia 93003
Anno  2009
Cre­di­ti Fotografici  

Exte­rior 01 — Ste­phen Schafer
Exte­rior 02 — Ste­phen Schafer
Exte­rior 03 — Ste­phen Schafer
Exte­rior 04 — Ste­phen Schafer
Exte­rior 05 — Ste­phen Schafer
Inte­rior 01 — Ste­phen Schafer
Inte­rior 02 — Ste­phen Schafer
Inte­rior 03 — Ste­phen Schafer
Inte­rior 04 — Ste­phen Schafer
Inte­rior 05 — Ste­phen Schafer

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

Nestled among the Topa Topa moun­tains of Cali­for­nia, an arca­ded cam­pus is com­po­sed as an aca­de­mic vil­la­ge. Arri­ving from across the moun­tains it appears as a Sha­n­­gri-La, pro­tec­ted, beau­ti­ful and sere­ne. Archi­tec­tu­ral­ly it is a pure whi­te dove lan­ded amid a ver­dant pasture.
A sacred buil­ding, anti­ci­pa­ted from the foun­da­tion of the col­le­ge, it har­mo­ni­zes with the exi­sting buil­dings whi­le cro­w­ning the ove­rall desi­gn and set­ting the stan­dard for futu­re expan­sion. The archi­tect faced the chal­len­ge of crea­ting a tem­ple that would incor­po­ra­te an exi­sting path­way whi­le expres­sing spi­ri­tual aspi­ra­tions. Ana­go­gi­cal­ly, the whi­te bar­que sails across the val­ley, a gate of para­di­se that is also a con­tem­po­ra­ry inter­pre­ta­tion of a trium­phal arch. An ela­bo­ra­te thre­shold is con­struc­ted throu­gh stairs, a ter­raz­za, and a low bar­­rel-vau­l­­ted exo-narthex.
The­re is a sen­se of pro­ces­sion in the inte­rior, ana­lo­gous to the visitor’s own jour­ney throu­gh life. Mono­li­thic bot­ti­ci­no shaf­ts line the navis whi­le ortho­go­nal gene­ra arti­cu­la­te the walls, with a cre­scen­do at the head and heart of the body. At the heart, the pro­ces­sio­nal axis is inter­rup­ted by the axis mun­di in which the dome of hea­ven is given con­cre­te form. Likewi­se, in the head, a cubic form of bron­ze shel­ters the pure whi­te mar­ble block. The con­ca­vi­ty in both plan and sec­tion defi­nes a type of sanc­tum sanc­to­rum that has been unvei­led to all inclu­ding its tower-like ark.
Is not the spi­ri­tual beau­ti­ful­ly expres­sed by the lumi­nous? Here the heart and mind rise to the eter­nal throu­gh the use of pure unco­lo­red light. An inti­ma­tion of the time­less, it is a cha­pel for phi­lo­so­phers, who­se bodies dwell within a cere­bral world of thought and idea. Color has lit­tle pla­ce here except to offer calm punc­tua­tion. Per­ma­nen­ce is visi­ble in the sha­ping of natu­ral sto­ne, the casting of metals and the car­ving of pla­ster. All within a volu­me poe­ti­cal­ly sha­ped like the hull of a ship, with a sail-like cei­ling, rea­dy to cast off toward the heavens.

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