Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2020

OCHOA – SAN BRO­CHE­RO CHAPEL

Desi­gner	Fede­ri­co Javier Ochoa
Loca­tion	Vil­la Cura Bro­che­ro, Cór­do­ba, Argentina
Desi­gn Team	Arq. Fede­ri­co Ochoa Arq. Aria­ne Ochoa
Anno	2017
Pho­to credits	Gon­za­lo Viramonte

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Saint Father Bro­che­ro Chapel
Pro­ject Narrative
How to build a cha­pel in honour of a saint without fal­ling into lite­ral reminiscences?
This was the star­ting point and the big­ge­st chal­len­ge of desi­gning a cha­pel for the fir­st Argen­ti­ne Saint. The most logi­cal solu­tion was, “desi­gning with a Bro­che­rian spi­rit, fol­lo­wing the values and the inten­tions of the prie­st without fal­ling into mor­pho­lo­gi­cal repetitions”.
Fir­st of all, Father Bro­che­ro who was down to earth, having his eyes in Hea­ven, was well kno­wn becau­se of his social deeds that aimed at tou­ching hearts, souls and lives.
The Cha­pel emer­ges from earth rho­m­­bo-sha­­ped. Whi­le it tou­ches the sky each sec­tion under­goes a key pro­cess, and it fini­shes towards Hea­ven. Also the “Gau­cho Prie­st” made use of clay, straw and wood to focus on local and con­tem­po­ra­ry tech­ni­ques. The­se ones are repla­ced by cur­rent and upda­ted mate­rials such as con­cre­te, steel and aluminum.
Final­ly Saint Bro­che­ro always relied on the skills of his “sheep herd”, regard­less the com­ple­xi­ty of the con­struc­tion that the cha­pel deman­ded. Local bric­klayers tea­med up to make this Cha­pel possible.
From the reli­gious point of view the signi­fi­can­ce and the sym­bo­lic have a major role in the under­stan­ding of the holy space.
This Cha­pel built to pay a tri­bu­te to the fir­st Argen­ti­ne Saint, an extraor­di­na­ry human being, deman­ded a very par­ti­cu­lar desi­gn in which the exte­rior and inte­rior of the buil­ding sho­wed off a modern lan­gua­ge capa­ble of com­mu­ni­ca­ting with a modern man, dee­ply roo­ted in tradition.
The “fle­xi­bi­li­ty” of rein­for­ced con­cre­te makes it the ideal mate­rial to cap­tu­re the mea­ning­ful mor­pho­lo­gy of the Cha­pel. Struc­tu­re, func­tion and spa­ce are uni­fied by the two hyper­bo­lic para­bo­loids of 8 cen­ti­me­tres thick. The inte­rior spa­ce of the Cha­pel also con­sists of sim­ple and mode­st mate­rials as today in hou­ses made up of bricks, wood and stone.
The cen­tra­li­zed distri­bu­tion reminds us of the Last Din­ner, insti­tu­tion of the Eucha­ri­st, ori­gin of the Holy Mass, Easter din­ner whe­re the Chri­stians gathe­red and par­ti­ci­pa­ted in the fea­st around an ordi­na­ry table.
Last but not lea­st, the per­cep­tion of light has a clo­se con­nec­tion with the expe­rien­ce of God’s gra­ce. God is invi­si­ble to our eyes, yet his action and gra­ce fill up our lives. That “sour­ce” of light of the Cha­pel, invi­si­ble to the eye, floods eve­ry­whe­re as the sacred spa­ce reveals itself.

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