Detail of the project ed. 2016

san-nor­ber­­to-parish / Car­los Cam­puzano Arquitectos

Design­er  Archi­tect Car­los Cam­puzano Castello
Loca­tion  Bogotá, Colombia
Design Team  

Archi­tect Angela Hernández
Archi­tect Diana Galvis
Archi­tect Zul­ma Garzón
Year  2011
Pho­to credits  

Pic­ture 1 — Car­los Campuzano
Pic­ture 2 — Angela Hernandez
Pic­ture 3 — Coque Gamboa
Pic­ture 4 — Car­los Campuzano
Pic­ture 5 — Car­los Campuzano
Pic­ture 6 — Coque Gamboa
Pic­ture 7 — Coque Gamboa
Pic­ture 8 — Coque Gamboa
Pic­ture 9 — Coque Gamboa
Pic­ture 10 — Angela Hernandez

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

From the aus­ter­i­ty in its archi­tec­tur­al design, the sim­plic­i­ty of its struc­ture through the puri­ty and geom­e­try of the shapes and the usage of con­crete and light as con­struc­tion mate­ri­als it cre­ates an inti­mate space, straight­for­ward and unadorned, that invites to the emo­tion and med­i­ta­tion. A sin­cere archi­tec­ture that also seeks to stand up the ideals of the Catholic Church of the 21th Century.
Immersed in a res­i­den­tial area of North­ern Bogo­ta, it is locat­ed in a urban plot of 900 m², the Temple’s vol­ume is a big enclosed box with high con­crete sur­faces that wraps the nave, and recedes in order to gen­er­ate pub­lic city space. The entrance thru the ramp pro­motes a cer­e­mo­ni­al and paused walk and invites to pere­gri­nate into the building.
The pro­gramme is devel­oped in four sto­ries. It counts with wor­ship areas, ora­to­ry, class­rooms, choir, offices, the Priest’s house, funer­ary urns and a park­ing lot at a semi-base­­ment, with a total con­struct­ed area of 2.038 m².
The main sto­ry ‑ele­vat­ed half floor from the pub­lic space- is walked at the same lev­el. The choir is a bridge that goes across the nave and dis­trib­utes music to the whole space.
The Grand Cross of the main façade rep­re­sents the open­ness and trans­paren­cy of the Catholic Church to the world and it is a struc­tur­al dilata­tion in the wall to account for ther­mal vol­u­met­ric changes.
The ceil­ing is a big “con­vex can­vas” that cov­ers com­plete­ly the nave and is sus­pend­ed in between two lon­gi­tu­di­nal gaps, where can be found kinet­ic-art stained glass­es, designed by the artist Car­los Cruz-Diez. Dur­ing the day nat­ur­al light goes across the space fil­tered by the stained glass­es, cre­at­ing chang­ing reflec­tions as a solar watch, and dur­ing the night, the use of light­ing, spread over the inclined sur­faces at the ceil­ing, a vari­ety of chro­mat­ic combinations.
In a world full of ten­sions, the Tem­ple looks to offer a haven of peace and joy, by the delight of silence and nat­ur­al light, in an inti­mate envi­ron­ment con­ve­nient for reflection.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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