Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2016

saint-john-bap­­ti­­st-cha­­pel / Ale­jan­dro Beau­tell, arquitecto

Pro­get­ti­sta  Ale­jan­dro Beautell
Loca­tion  El Hier­ro island, Tene­ri­fe, Cana­ry Islands, Spain.
Desi­gn Team  

Ale­jan­dro Beau­tell, architect

Team:
Jor­ge Díaz, junior architect
Eloy Fer­nán­dez, quan­ti­ty surveyor
Manuel Rosa­do, draftsman

Anno  2013
Cre­di­ti Fotografici  

All: Efrain Pin­tos, photographer

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The trian­gle, or tri­ne, is a poly­gon defi­ned by three ver­ti­ces that in the Chri­stian tra­di­tion sym­bo­li­zes the Myste­ry of the Holy Tri­ni­ty — one God in three per­sons. Each of the ver­ti­ces is part of the trian­gle, repre­sen­ting the myste­ry of God itself: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
So the trian­gle beco­mes a leit­mo­tiv of the pro­ject. The altar is pla­ced in the most acu­te angle of the trian­gle and its bisec­tor con­sti­tu­tes the main axis of the tem­ple. This axis will cover the various sta­ges of the life of a Chri­stian, begin­ning with bap­ti­sm, then beco­ming a part of the assem­bly and fini­shing in the com­mu­nion of the hea­ven­ly ban­quet. The­re­fo­re, the bap­ti­smal font, the altar, the taber­na­cle and the cross are ali­gned, as a meta­phor of the line of life.
The life of Saint John Bap­ti­st, patron saint of the cha­pel, was an exam­ple of sobrie­ty and auste­ri­ty. John is por­trayed as an asce­tic figu­re, Jesus coun­te­red him with tho­se who \\\“are in royal pala­ces\\\” and \\\“wear fine clo­thes.\\\” The sty­le of John the Bap­ti­st should urge all Chri­stians to choo­se sobrie­ty as a way of life. The same way as John defi­ned him­self as \\\“the voi­ce cry­ing out in the desert\\\”, the cha­pel, that will bear his name, will also pro­te­st again­st the exces­ses of the past and will be the pre­cur­sor of a new stream, testi­mo­ny that a new reli­gious art is possible.
Auste­ri­ty was not just a moral con­vic­tion, it was a neces­si­ty. We use the mate­rials we found in the island… we had no gold, but we had the light, we had no mar­ble, but we worth con­cre­te, the­re is not pla­ster fili­grees, but pla­ster of tiro­lia­no ser­ves us, you will not find cry­stal chan­de­liers, but, when night falls, we will light up the bulbs likewise. 

Tene­ri­fe, Cana­ry Islands 14th June 2013.
Ale­jan­dro Beau­tell, architect.

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