Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2020

BER­NAR­DO RODRI­GUES – CHA­PEL OF ETER­NAL LIGHT

Desi­gner	Ber­nar­do Rodrigues
Loca­tion	Rua Padre Gre­gó­rio de Ama­ral / rua da Sau­da­de, fre­gue­sia de Pon­ta Garça, con­ce­lho de Vila Fran­ca do Campo
Desi­gn Team	author­ship: Ber­nar­do Rodri­gues with Lau­ra von Dellemann Fir­st pha­se cola­bo­ra­tors: James Grain­ger, Pedro Mosca, Nata­cha Vivei­ros, Nuno Malhei­ro, Nuno Rodrigues. Quan­ti­ty sur­veyor & spe­ci­fi­ca­tions: Ana For­tu­na, Car­los Tavares Buil­ding: with Fran­ce­sco Ugo­lot­ti — pro­ject manager. Cola­bo­ra­tor: Gia­co­ma di Vieste
Anno	2018
Pho­to credits	1 ext — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 2 ext — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 3 ext — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 4 ext — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 5 ext — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 1 int — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 2 int — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 3 int — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 4 int — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan , 5 int — Cape­la Luz Eter­na BR — pho­to © Iwan Baan

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The Cha­pel of Eter­nal Light is a fune­ra­ry cha­pel for Pon­ta Garça, a small agra­rian Vil­la­ge south of St. Michel Island in Azo­res, Portugal.
Vil­la­ges are main­ly long roads paral­lel to the sea, with hou­ses facing the fields upwards, backs to the ocean, tra­di­tio­nal­ly whe­re dan­gers came, rou­gh wea­ther, pirates.
Pon­ta Garça is one of a few on a higher plat­form, not sea level.

Con­forms a cor­ner­sto­ne in new deve­lo­p­ment over the vil­la­ge in an upper-part of hou­sing and cemetery.
As the incli­na­tion is steep, the stra­te­gy was to pla­ce the buil­ding with the floor level­led at the ceme­te­ry squa­re, avoi­ding major lan­d­fill and a disrup­tion of the land­sca­pe pro­fi­le, crea­ting two plat­forms. The lower with a big water pond is whe­re the cha­pel emer­ges and anchors, delicately.

The con­struc­tion reflec­ts this gro­wing tec­to­nic layers. A fir­st con­cre­te inver­ted pyra­mid solid­ly ancho­red in a foun­da­tio­nal foot that sets the base for the reflec­ting pool. A second inver­ted pyra­mid in metal beams that are bol­ted to the con­cre­te one is the struc­tu­re and sup­port of the green Gua­te­ma­la mar­ble sla­tes on the outsi­de and the sil­ver pain­ted insu­la­ted panels inside. 
The sto­ne fixa­tions and sup­port are also visi­ble, as remem­bran­ce, poin­ts of sup­port nea­tly arran­ged in order to be a geo­me­try of gra­vi­ty and light.

The inte­rior of the cha­pel evo­ques the ute­ri­ne fee­ling of chia­­ro-scu­­ro, fil­te­red layers bet­ween our mind and outer world. 
An enclo­sed spa­ce for recol­lec­tion, homage,under the desi­gn of light.
A tem­po­ral line marks on the floor from mid mor­ning to ear­ly after­noon the pas­sa­ge of time.

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