Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2024

parish-church-senor-de-la-mise­­ri­­co­r­­dia / Spain

Belén Moneo

Pro­get­ti­sta Belén Moneo + Jeff Brock
Loca­tion Pue­blo Sere­na, Carr Nacio­nal #500, Sin Nom­bre de Col 50, 67350 Mon­ter­rey, N.L., Mexico
Nazio­ne Mexi­co
Desi­gn Team

ARCHI­TEC­TS
Belén Moneo, Jef­frey Brock

ARCHI­TEC­TS TEAM
Ire­ne Alber­di, Andrés Bar­rón, Fabri­ce Leray
Anno 2016
Cre­di­ti Fotografici

All Jor­ge Taboa­da except:
— IGL_EXT_2: Belén Moneo
— IGL_INT_5: Belén Moneo

Foto ester­ni

Descri­zio­ne del progetto

The church is loca­ted in a new urban deve­lo­p­ment. Its main entry opens direc­tly onto a pla­za, and this 11.5‑meter-wide ope­ning allo­ws for a visual and mate­rial con­nec­tion bet­ween the church inte­rior and the pla­za. This allo­ws the pla­za to func­tion as an annex to the church, with cele­bra­tions and rites spil­ling out­doors when cro­wds exceed the church’s capa­ci­ty of 350. Abo­ve the entry cano­py, the faça­de is a lar­ge flat wall, an empha­tic and squa­re pla­ne, decla­ra­ti­ve of the other­ness of the spa­ce within: the sacred spa­ce of the church interior. 

With this pro­ject the spa­ces of the tem­ple not only allow for tea­chings, social acti­vi­ties, rites and cele­bra­tions, but also repre­sent the deve­lo­p­ment of an archi­tec­tu­ral lan­gua­ge with a long histo­ry, spea­king of con­ti­nui­ty but also renewal. 

The volu­me­tric con­cept of the church deri­ves from tra­di­tio­nal church plans, and the desi­gn pre­sen­ts reco­gni­za­ble archi­tec­tu­ral fea­tu­res taken from ear­ly Chri­stian tem­ple pro­to­ty­pes, such as the bell tower, the stai­­ned-glass win­do­ws, the fron­tal altar, the bap­ti­ste­ry, the choir, the three cha­pels and the late­ral cour­tyard. None­the­less, the desi­gn is undoub­ted­ly modern. 

The plan is that of a basi­li­ca, with a rec­tan­gu­lar cen­tral nave some 15 meters high, its long axis orien­ted towards the altar. The­re are mul­ti­ple sour­ces of natu­ral light in the inte­rior. Behind the bap­ti­ste­ry a long glass wall runs the length of the nave giving views of an enclo­sed patio. Abo­ve this area is a ver­sion of a rose win­dow, a nine-squa­­re grid ope­ning to the west with colo­red glass. To the sou­thea­st, three small cha­pels are each day­lit by high sky­lights. Final­ly, abo­ve the altar is a fourth high sky­light, who­se light washes down behind an incli­ned panel cut into four sec­tions to reveal a lar­ge Latin cross, the cross glo­wing with the light from above.

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