Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2024

cedo­­fei­­ta-church / Portugal

CFAAr­chi­tec­ts

Pro­get­ti­sta Antó­nio Jor­ge de Mou­ra Lei­tão Cere­jei­ra Fontes
Loca­tion Lar­go do Prio­ra­do 72, 4050–466 Porto
Nazio­ne Por­tu­gal
Desi­gn Team

Lead Archi­tec­ts: Antó­nio Jor­ge Cere­jei­ra Fon­tes, André Cere­jei­ra Fontes

Nuno Cruz
Cri­stó­vão Piairo
Antó­nio Dias
Bru­no Marques
Duar­te Vilaça
Mafal­da Ribeiro
Anno 2018
Cre­di­ti Fotografici

Exte­rior 1 and 2 — Jai­me Silva
Exte­rior 3 — Vitor Oliveira
Exte­rior 4 and 5, Inte­rior — José Campos

Foto ester­ni

Descri­zio­ne del progetto

This reha­bi­li­ta­tion comes as a respon­se to the deva­sta­ting 2017 fire that destroyed the bap­ti­smal cha­pel of the church. Despi­te the effort to respect the pre­vious inter­ven­tion, which took pla­ce in the 1990s, this reha­bi­li­ta­tion par­ti­cu­lar­ly seeks to shed light on the prin­ci­ples that under­lie the ori­gi­nal desi­gn of the church’s inte­rior from the 1960s, by archi­tect Eugé­nio Alves de Sou­za. We also con­si­de­red the insti­tu­tio­nal con­strain­ts that govern the par­ti­cu­la­ri­ties of a pla­ce of wor­ship, care­ful­ly arti­cu­la­ting them with the monu­men­tal and reli­gious cha­rac­ter of its architecture.

The buil­ding interior’s bru­ta­li­st cha­rac­ter is ani­ma­ted by the color­ful light that floods in from the stai­­ned-glass win­do­ws. To enhan­ce this qua­li­ty, we opted for a silent, almo­st sur­gi­cal inter­ven­tion. A clear, smooth, and level floor con­nec­ts all the dif­fe­rent spa­ces of the church, allo­wing the pie­ces cen­tral to wor­ship and cele­bra­tion, such as the altar and the ambo, to rise in the spa­ce on mar­ble – the sto­ne thus assu­mes itself as ano­ther sacred ele­ment in the new con­fi­gu­ra­tion – and to enter dia­lo­gue with the great organ and the exi­sting sculp­tu­ral pieces.

A new spa­tial orga­ni­za­tion of the com­plex was pro­po­sed throu­gh a pro­gres­si­ve sequen­ce of dif­fe­rent “momen­ts of pre­pa­ra­tion”. By visual­ly ope­ning the inte­rior, we allow the two pro­ces­sio­nal paths to hap­pen in a more dyna­mic, intui­ti­ve man­ner, besto­wing a cine­ma­tic qua­li­ty to the spa­ce. Here, archi­tec­tu­re not only inten­si­fies but is also intrin­sic to the spi­ri­tual expe­rien­ce. In the end, the heart of this pro­ject lies in our attempt to under­stand and con­ci­lia­te the spa­tial and spi­ri­tual needs of an old and a new gene­ra­tion of chur­ch­goers – to crea­te trans­cen­den­tal architecture.

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