Detail of the project ed. 2020

MECK ARCHITEK­TEN – SELIGER PATER RUPERT MAY­ER CHURCH

Design­er Andreas Meck †, Axel Frühauf
Loca­tion Gebrüder-Asam-Straße 2, 85586 Poing, Germany
Design Team

Archi­tects:
Andreas Meck †
Axel Frühauf

Col­lab­o­ra­tors:
Wolf­gang Amann
(project management)
Mar­ti­na Frieling
Tobias Jahn
(project management)
Vivian Krieg
Ste­fan Zöls

Site Man­ag­er:
rudolf + sohn architekten

Year 2018
Pho­to credits

“POI meck architek­ten 1 Holzherr” — Flo­ri­an Holzherr
“POI meck architek­ten 2 Holzherr” — Flo­ri­an Holzherr
“POI meck architek­ten 3 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 4 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 5 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 6 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 7 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 8 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 9 Hein­rich” — Michael Heinrich
“POI meck architek­ten 10 Hein­rich” — Flo­ri­an Holzherr

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

In an extreme­ly sen­si­tive town plan­ning sit­u­a­tion, the new church, with its sculp­tur­al form, works like a key­stone to act as a con­nect­ing inter­face between green land­scape and town. In doing so, the design picks up on the dif­fer­ent rela­tion­ships between coun­try­side and town and fus­es these togeth­er on the church square, which presents itself from the street as an invit­ing retreat for the pub­lic. Bell tow­er and rec­to­ry are posi­tioned low­er and form the bor­der of the church square, there­by com­pos­ing the frame for the church.
A mas­sive foun­da­tion masoned from molasse con­glom­er­ate — a typ­i­cal con­glom­er­ate grav­el of Upper Bavaria — con­sti­tutes the church’s base, which appears to grow out of the ground. Above this, as an iden­ti­fi­able land­mark of the new parish church, soars the white cer­am­ic-tiled roof, unfold­ing with sculp­tur­al ener­gy. The con­trast between the ethe­re­al white crown and the stone foun­da­tion rep­re­sents a vision of heav­en and earth, of tran­scen­dance and imma­nence, and it is in this field of ten­sion that the church space is anchored.
The church build­ing opens to rec­to­ry and church square. Enter­ing the church space with its slight slope towards the altar, after a low­er entry area, a room of light opens up, Baroque-like, urg­ing one’s view heav­en­ward. This, in con­struc­tion as well as sym­bol­i­cal­ly, is com­posed of a spa­tial cross that man­i­fests itself as a pow­er­ful image in the shape of the ceil­ing’s spa­cial folding.
As an anal­o­gy to the Holy Trin­i­ty, three large sky­lights respec­tive­ly illu­mi­nate var­i­ous litur­gi­cal loca­tions and activities.The espe­cial­ly sculp­tured exe­cu­tion of the ceram­ic tiles is coor­di­nat­ed with the light and space con­cept of the church room and cre­ates with its strong­ly dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed geom­e­try man­i­fold light refrac­tion. Play­ing with the light in this way, the roof land­scape becomes the crys­tal ‘city crown’ of the town of Poing.
A church for close­ness and encounter: com­pre­hen­si­ble, open, invit­ing, mem­o­rable and vis­i­ble over a long distance.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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