Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2020

MES­SI­NA | RIVAS – INGA MIRIM CHAPEL

Desi­gner	Rodri­go Quin­tel­la Messina
Loca­tion	City Itu­pe­va — São Pau­lo — São Paulo
Desi­gn Team	fran­ci­sco rivas rodri­go messina gua­da­lu­pe sappia ​
Anno	2018
Pho­to credits	All pho­tos from Fede­ri­co Cairoli

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The Ingá-Mirim Cha­pel is loca­ted on the outskirts of the city of Itu­pe­va, 80km from São Pau­lo, on a 19th-cen­­tu­­ry esta­te. We were asked to reno­va­te the for­mer local colo­nial esta­te to make it an envi­ron­ment that responds to local cele­bra­tions of reli­gious importance.

We under­stand the idea of the archi­tec­tu­ral reform as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to rein­ter­pret pre-exi­­sting con­struc­tion, ena­bling new rela­tion­ships bet­ween the pro­ject and the land­sca­pe. The­re­fo­re, as an act of reflec­tion, we deci­ded to disarm the mate­rials of the old colo­nial esta­te in the desi­gn of the Ingá-Mirim Cha­pel in order to reu­se them and to give them new conditions.

The con­struc­tion was car­ried out in col­la­bo­ra­tion with the farm care­ta­kers, the bro­thers Car­los and Char­les, who pre­viou­sly wor­ked in con­struc­tion and now do the local pre­ser­va­tion work. With them we expe­ri­men­ted with how we could, throu­gh their own kno­w­led­ge, reu­se the mate­rials of the old local buil­dings. Under the­se con­di­tions, the con­struc­tion pro­cess fol­lo­wed the sche­du­le of the dai­ly acti­vi­ties such as mowing, relea­sing hor­ses or fee­ding cattle.

Using the foun­da­tion of the pre-exi­­sting con­struc­tion, the pro­ject is based on three sto­ne walls used in the old road that allo­wed access to the farm. Bet­ween the­se three walls, the unar­med bricks of the esta­te defi­ne a path that leads throu­gh spa­ces that seek con­ti­nui­ty bet­ween con­struc­tion and land­sca­pe, thus sug­ge­sting an open reli­gious enjoyment.

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