Detail of the project ed. 2016

church-saint-john-paul-ii / VZ ARQUITECTOS

Design­er  RODRIGO
Loca­tion  8 Miguel de Cer­vantes Avenue, 47130 Siman­cas, Val­ladol­id. Spain.
Design Team  

Archi­tects:
Enrique Vil­lar Pagola
Rodri­go Zaparaín Hernández

Col­lab­o­ra­tor:
Fer­nan­do Vas­sal­lo Magro (archi­tect)
Javier Martínez Pérez (altar­piece sculptor)
Lope Hier­ro Martín (drafts­man)
Year  2008
Pho­to credits  

Enrique Vil­lar Pago­la / Juan Car­los Quindós

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

The Church of St. John Paul II is sit­u­at­ed in a res­i­den­tial estate, on a par­cel of land set in a green space with access from a street with lit­tle traf­fic. This is a small church des­tined for use by the res­i­dents of the area. What was sug­gest­ed was a build­ing with a round­ed vol­ume, tak­ing into account the recess­es in the land­scape, with the inten­tion of gen­er­at­ing a sculp­tured piece which illus­trates its char­ac­ter as an out­stand­ing edifice.
The mas­sive total vol­ume is bro­ken down into parts when it is trans­versed. It spreads out under the awning which cov­ers the atri­um in the exte­ri­or and the bell tow­er. It has been dealt with as a sol­id body which has been exca­vat­ed until reach­ing the final result. The aper­tures for light are con­cen­trat­ed in the bases con­nect­ed to the accesses.
The whole edi­fice has been built with two mate­ri­als: a gran­ite base which adjusts itself to the height, togeth­er with a cov­er­ing of lime­stone which gives it its mas­sive char­ac­ter. The fin­ish of the para­pets with­out cop­ing of any oth­er mate­r­i­al con­tributes to increase the idea of a round­ed volume.
In the inte­ri­or the build­ing has been designed as a sin­gu­lar nave with dou­ble height which expands into a lat­er­al nave where the chapel for the taber­na­cle as well as aux­il­iary spaces can be found. The choir is found “float­ing” in the mid­dle of the nave, fur­ther for­ward com­pared to its tra­di­tion­al place­ment. In this way a grad­ual sequen­tial access to the inte­ri­or has been cre­at­ed which com­mences in the out­door pedes­tri­an pub­lic space. This con­tin­ues rom the cov­ered exte­ri­or atri­um with its awning to the inte­ri­or glazed atri­um, the crevice of light before reach­ing the base of the choir and the pro­gres­sive uncov­er­ing of the altar­piece while the entire space of the nave is inun­dat­ed with zenithal light.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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