Detail of the project ed. 2020

FRÁNEK ARCHI­TECTS – CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

Design­er Zdeněk Fránek
Loca­tion Hrade­clí 2192, 252 28 Čer­nošice, Czech Republic
Design Team

Fránek archi­tects, s.r.o.
Zdeněk Fránek
Year 2010
Pho­to credits

01 ext — Ester Havlová
02 ext — 05 ext — Petr Polák, Stu­dio Petrohrad
01 int — 05 int — Petr Polák, Stu­dio Petrohrad

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

The plas­tic space of the church of the fra­ter­nal church is wrapped in a brick rib­bon, which has a ser­rat­ed and wrin­kled sur­face inside and out to sup­port the per­cep­tion of its plas­tic­i­ty. Inside, it cre­ates an acoustic com­fort. The rooms are illu­mi­nat­ed by indi­rect day­light through hid­den open­ings. The actu­al part of the church is placed in the water area. One to mir­ror the assem­bly space, on the one hand for bap­tism ceremonies.
The church in Čer­nošice has the same build­ing pro­gram as the church in Lit­o­myšl. Two com­pe­ti­tions were announced for both of them at the same time, we won in both of them, both of them start­ed to be built at once and both were fin­ished at once. Both are com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent depend­ing on local conditions.
With a bit of poet­ry: the new church in Čer­nošice is white as a duvet, point­ed and at the same time round like the wings of an angel, its sur­face is struc­tured, like feath­ers, ser­rat­ed, like a ski slope in the morn­ing, like a dove and a pen­guin, it is said to be a ship, but I don’t know any­thing about that. It is a brick vault fac­ing the sky like a con­tain­er for rain, where the lit­tle con­crete we used can be seen for clar­i­ty. Just as the Baroque is formed by an bound­less riv­er of bricks flow­ing in all direc­tions, the Church of Čer­nošice is, in a way, the oppo­site — a sophis­ti­cat­ed brick shell. It is not only the house of prayer, but also the home of the great brotherhood.
The inspi­ra­tion for the form of the church was the draw­ings of Paul Klee’s angels. And not one draw­ing, because all of them, as a set, rep­re­sent to me an expla­na­tion of what I would call angel­ic phys­iog­no­my. The church is thus a depic­tion of an angel not one but pun­ish­es all through whom God speaks to people.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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