FLORES & PRATS – THE MORNING CHAPEL — VATICAN CHAPEL
| Designer | Ricardo Flores | |
| Location | Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia | |
| Design Team |
Architects: Flores & Prats (Ricardo Flores, Eva Prats). |
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| Anno | 2018 | |
| Photo credits |
All 10 photos by Adrià Goula. |
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Descrizione del progetto
The Vatican Country participated at the Venice Architecture Biennale for the first time in 2018. Their pavilion was curated by the architect Francesco Dal Co, who invited 10 different architectural offices from around the globe to design a chapel inside the forest of San Giorgio Maggiore Island. The Chapel was to be a place of gathering and orientation. The forest of San Giorgio has a fan structure of walks, starting from Palladio’s cloisters towards the Lagoon. The Morning Chapel is along one of these long paths, and sits right before this walking line meets the water.
The Morning Chapel is presented as a wall parallel to the path. This wall has a door, offering the option to step aside from the common route and cross it, getting into the forest. The chapel becomes a door to the grander entity to which it belongs: a natural dome made out of the adjacency of tree branches. The fragmentary condition of the chapel is thus complemented by the pine forest, and borrows its natural qualities from the trees in it: the smell, the fresh air, the noises and the light. Both elements, built and vegetal, form a natural clearance that embraces the visitor, and create a place to stay. It is a change of rhythm, a change of breath.
The chosen site for the Chapel is at the eastern part of the island, where the morning starts and the chapel can catch the first sun of the day. This chapel is an early morning place, where the first sunlight becomes visible through a ray of light that trespasses an oculus in its wall. The Morning Chapel, catching the sunlight on its walls, and the island forest, a continuous canopy in darkness, together establish a quiet place, an invitation to sit alone or in a group. Once there, one is confronted with the same end that the lineal walk was leading to. The difference is that The Morning Chapel builds another perspective and a meeting place: its open condition welcomes all kinds of visitors to this side of Venice.
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