Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2016

church-of-st-mar­­ga­­ret / Erdé­lyi + Partner

Pro­get­ti­sta	Balazs, Erdelyi
Loca­tion	Tapol­ca, Vesz­prém coun­ty, Hungary
Desi­gn Team	Balazs Erde­lyi Balint Erdelyi
Anno	2011
Cre­di­ti Fotografici	All pho­to cre­di­ts by Balint Erdelyi

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

Church in the new cemetery
I have long been – at lea­st sin­ce my stu­dies in the Fran­ci­scan secon­da­ry school of Szen­ten­dre – inte­re­sted in rede­fi­ning the ancient archi­tec­tu­ral ele­men­ts by using modern means and mate­rials. My aim at display­ing the inner trans­cen­den­tal need of peo­ple that con­nec­ts a com­mu­ni­ty to its ance­stors, past, futu­re, after­li­fe and God. The cen­tral buil­dings of the new public ceme­te­ry in Tapol­ca, inclu­ding the fune­ral par­lor and the church desi­gned by me, repre­sent the pla­ce of tran­si­tion after death. Inten­tio­nal­ly I cut emp­ty cli­chés, mate­rials and colors of the anti-cle­­ri­­cal era. I con­si­de­red „life” as „thea­ter” and „direc­ted the last sce­ne of the last act” to resol­ve the per­so­nal and com­mu­nal tra­ge­dy. The lay­out of the spa­ce is based on the con­cept of ear­ly Hun­ga­rian church archi­tec­tu­re. Cen­­tra­­li­­zed-plan and round chur­ches were typi­cal in the ear­ly ages, whi­le the east-west axis of the sacred spa­ce and the south facing entran­ce were the main cha­rac­te­ri­stics of Roma­ne­sque churches.
Domes in archi­tec­tu­re have a spe­cial role, they empha­si­ze spa­ces, ampli­fy cul­tu­re, reli­gion or repre­sen­ta­ti­ve func­tions. The­re­fo­re, a new dome is a spe­cial achie­ve­ment of archi­tec­tu­re and tech­no­lo­gy, it rede­fi­nes the buil­ding prin­ci­ples of past simi­lar structures.
Bru­nel­le­schi built the dome of the San­ta Maria del Fio­re with a spe­cial bric­klay­ing pro­cess. He only used a cylin­dri­cal rib­bing without any sup­port or scaf­fol­ding for the new­ly built struc­tu­re, as if the new dome was built floa­ting in the air. He put tran­sver­sal bricks insi­de the lon­gi­tu­di­nal­ly layed rows of buil­ding blocks, which then held brick arches like boo­kends. The same prin­ci­ple was applied in the struc­tu­re of the church’s dome in Tapolca.
The manu­fac­tu­ring tech­no­lo­gy of the Dura­therm system made it pos­si­ble for eve­ry ele­ment to be sha­ped to pre­ci­se dimen­sions and angles to fit their exact location.
The con­struc­tion cost of the church was bor­ne by the chri­stian com­mu­ni­ty of the town.

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