Detail of the project ed. 2016

parish-church-and-com­­mu­ni­­ty-cen­tre / VZ ARQUITECTOS

Design­er	ENRIQUE VIL­LAR PAGOLA
Loca­tion	7 Luis Rodríguez Arango Street, Bur­gos. Spain
Design Team	Archi­tects: VZ ARQUITECTOS Enrique Vil­lar Pagola Rodri­go Zaparaín Hernández
Year	2015
Pho­to credits	all files © Juan Car­los Quindós

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Project descrip­tion

The project for a holy place is approached from a dou­ble view­point. On the one hand to char­ac­terise the space so that it express­es ade­quate­ly its con­di­tion as holy, and on the oth­er to give an answer to a series of func­tion­al demands pecu­liar to the liturgy.In their turn these are endowed with a great air of sym­bol­ic meanings.

For that pur­pose we have trust­ed in our own forms of con­tem­po­rary lan­guage which have already been explored in pre­vi­ous projects (the church of St.John Paul II in Siman­cas or the chapel of Alcazaren Col­lege, both in Val­ladol­id). This was also applied to the use of space, the scale, the use and char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion of light, the sculp­tur­al treat­ment of the space, the vol­ume, and the coor­di­na­tion of a unit­ed icono­graph­i­cal pro­gramme in agree­ment with the lan­guage and char­ac­ter­is­tics of the temple. 

We have decid­ed on a build­ing with defined vol­umes which pro­vide an answer to each and every ele­ment of the pro­gramme. These con­sist of the bell tow­er and a colum­bar­i­um in its inte­ri­or, a con­tin­u­ous base skirt­ing the lim­its of the perime­ter, which hous­es the parish cen­tre with its access­es, and last­ly, for the tem­ple, a cubic vol­ume which emerges from an a strip of glass.

The treat­ment of the exte­ri­or was resolved by cov­er­ing it with just one mate­r­i­al. This was GRC (Glass Rein­forced Con­crete) with a grooved fin­ish, with frag­ments of a large size and hor­i­zon­tal mod­u­la­tion organ­ised in lev­els. We have tried to enhance the pub­lic char­ac­ter of the build­ing in the urban res­i­den­tial sur­round­ings. The aper­tures for light have been treat­ed with a scale accord­ing to the glob­al vol­ume, uni­fy­ing them with the use of dark­ened glass.The vol­umes have been exca­vat­ed so as to form the access­es and have light­ing spaces avail­able on a less­er scale.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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