Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2016

remo­­te-out­­back-cha­­pel / Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Architects

Pro­get­ti­sta  Lui­gi Rosselli
Loca­tion  Far North Western Australia
Desi­gn Team  

Lui­gi Ros­sel­li — Desi­gn Architects
Kri­sti­na Sahle­strom — Lead Pro­ject Architect
David Mit­chell — Pro­ject Architect
Anno  2014
Cre­di­ti Fotografici  

Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 001 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 003 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 004 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 006 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 007 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 008 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 009 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts Remo­te Ram­med Earth Cha­pel 010 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts The Great Wall of WA 003 — Edward Birch
Lui­gi Ros­sel­li Archi­tec­ts The Great Wall of WA Con­struc­tion 006 — Lui­gi Rosselli

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The Muste­rers’ Quar­ters Cha­pel is loca­ted in the rug­ged, hot and sun­bur­ned land­sca­pe of a remo­te cat­tle sta­tion in North Western Austra­lia. An ancient sand dune arches around the back of a cat­tle sta­tion home­stead and dug into the dune are twel­ve accom­mo­da­tion apart­men­ts for tran­sient muste­ring wor­kers, which fol­low the cre­st of the dune and fan out towards the view of the whi­te gho­st gum trees scat­te­red along the distant river bank. On the highe­st point of the dune a Cha­pel domi­na­tes the Muste­rers’ Quarters.

The Cha­pel is like a sea­shell; a sim­ple oval plan with a skewed coni­cal Cor-Ten steel roof that pro­vi­des pro­tec­tion from the scor­ching sun. The cone apex, trun­ca­ted at an ocu­lus ope­ning, much like the Pan­theon of Rome, pro­vi­des a solar meri­dian on the floor. A gold ano­di­sed alu­mi­nium cei­ling and a sacred ver­se inscri­bed on the ring beam of the roof are sub­tle spi­ri­tual com­po­nen­ts that do not attempt to rival the intrin­sic spi­ri­tua­li­ty of the land­sca­pe and the small fami­ly ceme­te­ry at the bot­tom of the hill. Thou­gh plan­ned as a mul­­ti-pur­­po­­se spa­ce, the cha­pel is prin­ci­pal­ly a pla­ce of wor­ship, imbi­bed with the sacred aura of the pla­ce, begin­ning with the indi­ge­nous care­ta­kers of the site to the gra­ves of the fir­st set­tlers at the bot­tom of the hill. The aerial view of this land­sca­pe and the ram­med earth zig­zag­ging struc­tu­res are remin­ders of the abo­ri­gi­nal tra­di­tio­nal pain­tings and their repre­sen­ta­tion of the mythi­cal histo­ry of the land.

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