Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2020

MAG ÉPÍ­TÉSZ MŰTE­REM – ST GEOR­GES ROMAN CATHO­LIC CHURCH

Desi­gner Zol­tán Győrffy
Loca­tion Gát street 1. 4225, Debre­­cen-Józ­­sa, Hungary,
Desi­gn Team

Archi­tect: Zol­tán Győrffy

Anno 2015
Pho­to credits

Pho­tos: Batár Zsolt

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The site has been allo­ca­ted by the city of Debre­cen to the Catho­lic Church to build a new hou­se of wor­ship lar­ge enou­gh to accom­mo­da­te at lea­st 200 chur­ch­goers. It is somewhat out of the ordi­na­ry: it is loca­ted whe­re the fore­st belt hug­ging the Tócó Stream and a hou­sing esta­te meet. We inten­ded to desi­gn a buil­ding which is com­ple­men­ta­ry to its rural-like sur­roun­dings, sui­ta­ble for its futu­re use and appro­pria­te­ly arti­cu­la­tes its divi­ne natu­re for time to come.

We have desi­gned a pro­mi­nent gate fea­tu­ring at the site entran­ce mar­king the direc­tion of arri­val. The buil­ding itself has been posi­tio­ned away from the entran­ce in order to make spa­ce for an area sui­ta­ble for mul­­ti-pur­­po­­se con­gre­ga­tion as well as to allow the entry into the buil­ding to feel like a ritual. The gate on one hand sepa­ra­tes the street-side public area from the inner open air con­gre­ga­tion spa­ce but on the other it con­nec­ts the two.

The homo­ge­nous loo­king mass of the church depic­ts the arche­ty­pe of the hou­se. Eve­ry detail of the buil­ding was pro­du­ced, manu­fac­tu­red or wor­ked on by local craf­tsmen and arti­sans. From the distan­ce the buil­ding appears to be an outli­ne only, but from clo­ser inspec­tion the details that have been left on the fabric by the craf­tsmen are very much noti­cea­ble. The­se details tell fur­ther sto­ries to the infor­med admirers.

The used natu­ral mate­rials make the buil­ding look homo­ge­neous. The har­mo­ny bet­ween the brick and tim­ber ensu­res the uni­ty of the buil­ding. The bricks have been poin­ted with slur­ry, a typi­cal local tech­ni­que. From the distan­ce it looks as the bricks have just been ren­de­red but their rich tex­tu­re, detai­led natu­re and inten­si­ty, which fluc­tua­tes depen­ding on the light con­di­tions, beco­mes obvious when admi­red from a short distan­ce. The tim­ber with its con­struc­tion method, size selec­tion, pla­ce­ment and colour has adju­sted well to the fini­shes, crea­ting even stron­ger homo­ge­nei­ty bet­ween the struc­tu­ral elements.

The light, the mate­rials and the fore­st all beco­me orga­ni­sing ele­men­ts. The con­ti­nuou­sly chan­ging illu­mi­na­tion of the mass of the buil­ding — insi­de just as much as outsi­de — advan­ces, toge­ther with the litur­gi­cal even­ts, into dra­ma­tic power as intended.

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