Detail of the project ed. 2020

ATE­LIER ŠTĚPÁN – CHURCH OF ST WENCESLAS

Design­er Marek Štěpán
Loca­tion Sazovice, 763 01, Czech republic
Design Team

Marek Štěpán, Fran­tišek Brych­ta, Jan Vodič­ka, Van­da Štěpánová, Jan Martínek, Tomáš Jurák, Hana Myšková
Year 2017
Pho­to credits

Boys play nice

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

The idea to build the church in Sazovice occur before the Sec­ond World War. Three years ago, the idea returned and poe­ple from Sazovice found­ed the Asso­ci­a­tion for the con­struc­tion of the church.

Out­side
I want­ed to dema­te­ri­al­ize the build­ing. It looks like some­thing light, abstract, bright and nat­ur­al. It evokes more paper than brick. It’s like a ring of paper with cut­ting you push or pull to get more light inside.
Vis­i­tors don’t per­ceive the thick­ness of the walls, because they taper from half meter to cen­time­ter. The light com­ing through the cuts illu­mi­nate the space. It glides along the walls and shape the form. Pen­e­tra­tion of light into the build­ing are twofold — wall bends out­wards or inwards — that can be under­stood as reflect­ing the male and female principle.
Light becomes a fac­tor which cre­ates a lack of inter­face between what is ver­i­fi­able by the sens­es, and what is beyond mate­r­i­al world. The scale is based on Prague’s chapel, the perime­ter of the church is cir­cum­scribed the square of Prague’s chapel. Its cylin­dri­cal mass refers to the time of St. Wences­las, when rotun­das were built.

Inside
The inte­ri­or is sim­ple and clean to bring a sense of quiet­ness and peace. Old­er church­es are full of visu­al infor­ma­tion — the entire sto­ry is writ­ten in paint­ings, sculp­tures, in the dec­o­ra­tion. For exem­ple inte­ri­or in Baroque church was com­plete­ly descrip­tive to give peo­ple an idea about Jesus life. Peo­ple today are over­load with infor­ma­tion, the church should per­ceive only the puri­ty of space and peace and real­ize your inner self. There is a space with­out per­son­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion visu­al smog — a sim­ple, focused, and pure recollection.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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