Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2024

the-cha­­pel-of-the-last-farewell / Poland

Jakub Tur­ba­sa

Pro­get­ti­sta	Jakub Tur­ba­sa & Bar­tło­miej Pyrzyk
Loca­tion	Fran­cisz­kan­ska Street, Rych­wałd (near Żywiec), Poland
Nazio­ne	Poland
Desi­gn Team	Archi­tec­ts: Jakub Tur­ba­sa & Bar­tło­miej Pyrzyk
Anno	2021
Cre­di­ti Fotografici	Jakub Tur­ba­sa & Bar­tło­miej Pyrzyk

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Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The pro­ject was car­ried out in clo­se pro­xi­mi­ty to the baro­que com­plex with the minor basi­li­ca of St. Nicho­las. The sim­pli­ci­ty of archi­tec­tu­re deri­ves from the arche­ty­pal, tra­di­tio­nal forms, con­sti­tu­ting their con­tem­po­ra­ry reinterpretation. 

The block con­sists of two parts that ade­qua­te­ly express the func­tion rela­ted to the spa­ces of sacrum and pro­fa­num. The fir­st one refers to the pla­ce of prayer — the cha­pel. The second one, cove­red with gree­ne­ry — encom­pas­sing the accom­pa­ny­ing rooms.

The pro­ject com­bi­nes two tra­di­tions of con­struc­ting Chri­stian sacral buil­dings: the “con­cept of way” (moving in sta­ges from the world of the pro­fa­num towards the pla­ce of the sacrum; and the “con­cept of pla­ce” (cen­tral lay­out of gathe­ring toge­ther in prayer). The desi­gn con­cept echoes the memo­ry of the so-cal­­led “Paschal path” — i.e. the last momen­ts of Chri­st’s life — from the Pas­sion, throu­gh death, to resur­rec­tion, which was sym­bo­li­cal­ly expres­sed in architecture.

Sta­ge 1 – Pas­sion. After cros­sing the thre­shold of the cha­pel, a per­son finds them­sel­ves in a vesti­bu­le fil­led with dar­k­ness. Rein­for­ced con­cre­te walls and the cei­ling are black, which aims to empha­si­ze the impres­sion of immen­si­ty, infi­ni­ty and “imma­te­ria­li­ty” of a pla­ce whe­re all con­tours are lost.

2 – Death. At the end of the cha­pe­l’s per­spec­ti­ve and also at eye level, you can see a fili­gree cross that expres­ses the next sta­ge — i.e. death.

3 – Resur­rec­tion. Throu­gh the zone of dar­k­ness, we enter the actual zone of prayer. This bright spa­ce sym­bo­li­zes the hope of the Chri­stian voca­tion (accor­ding to the Chri­stian faith, life does not end with death). In the pla­ce whe­re peo­ple gather around the body of the decea­sed, their atten­tion is not focu­sed on the rea­li­ty of death (i.e. the cross and the decea­sed per­son), but is direc­ted towards the per­spec­ti­ve of eter­nal life. The archi­tec­tu­re of the inte­rior natu­ral­ly gui­des the gaze upwards and towards the light. The icons by Gre­ta Leś­ko pre­sent a lit­tle taste of this reality.

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