Detail of the project ed. 2016

capil­la-uni­ver­si­­taria-upaep / RODRÍGUEZ ROSAS ARQUITECTOS

Design­er  MTRO. ARQ. FER­NAN­DO RODRÍGUEZ CONCHA
Loca­tion  PUEBLA PUEBLA
Design Team  

Mtro. Arq. Fer­nan­do Rodríguez Concha.
Mtra. Arq. Lore­na Veróni­ca Oroz­co Velázquez
Arq. Car­men María Rodríguez Rosas
Aman­da Michelle Mancera Hernández
Jés­si­ca Báez
Ócar Pérez
Year  2015
Pho­to credits  

Mtro. René Octavio Huer­ta (Out­side pho­to: 4&5; inside pho­to: 2,3&4)
Ilse A. Martínez Tel­lo (Out­side pho­to: 2&3; inside photo:1)
Cyn­thia M. Cortés Nar­cia (Out­side pho­to: 1; inside pho­to: 5)

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

UPAEP Uni­ver­si­ty Chapel is an exam­ple of con­tem­po­rary reli­gious archi­tec­ture: attrac­tive, acces­si­ble and func­tion­al. The entrance locat­ed on 21 South Street gives access to the whole com­mu­ni­ty of Santiago´s Neigh­bor­hood, lead­ing us inside through a square gar­den with lit foun­tains, spaces for reflec­tion and rest.

From the cam­pus, the build­ing can oper­ate as an open chapel, but the dai­ly access is by a sys­tem of vaults and domes par­ti­tion appar­ent that call us to the silence and rec­ol­lec­tion, prepar­ing us for an expe­ri­ence of calm reflec­tion. Once inside the sacred space, we find a design that enhances our tra­di­tion­al val­ues and miscegenation.UPAEP Uni­ver­si­ty Chapel is a work of art that was intend­ed to be exe­cut­ed by the expert hand of our tra­di­tion­al Mex­i­can artisans.

The build­ing in ques­tion has small dimen­sions and yet mon­u­men­tal pres­ence. It can accom­mo­date 148 peo­ple for Eucharis­tic cel­e­bra­tions behind closed doors, how­ev­er, flex­i­bil­i­ty and tech­nol­o­gy of its facil­i­ties allow its facade to open and cel­e­brate the litur­gy on a larg­er scale using the Founders walk. (An open area in front of the chapel).

The floor plant is prac­ti­cal­ly a rec­tan­gu­lar prism con­di­tioned by sur­round­ing build­ings, nev­er­the­less breaks the orthog­o­nal­i­ty of the perime­ter walls whith the cov­er, that is divid­ed into four ascend­ing slabs. At the top of each wall, two steel beams emerge, their curvean form resem­ble invert­ed parabo­las, with the struc­tur­al func­tion of sup­port­ing the four slabs cov­er­ing the lon­gi­tu­di­nal course of the chapel. Between the cov­er con­crete and the wood­en ceil­ing of each slab, ducts which are used for nat­ur­al ven­ti­la­tion of the build­ing by air con­vec­tion are formed. Slen­der rec­tan­gu­lar planes make up each of the slabs, unfold­ing them­selves from top to set­tle on a lock that frames the main entrance.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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