Detail of the project ed. 2020

PAULA SAN­TOS – OUT­DOOR ALTAR IN THE PRAYER AREA

Design­er	Paula San­tos
Loca­tion	San­tuário de Fáti­ma, 2496–908 Fáti­ma, Portugal
Design Team	paula san­tos | arqui­tec­tura, with A. N. Tombazis & Asso­ciates Architects
Year	2016
Pho­to credits	All pho­tographs are from Fer­nan­do Guer­ra FG+SG

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Project descrip­tion

The Cen­te­nary of the Appari­tions of Fati­ma and the vis­it of the Pope Fran­cis­co on the 13th of May 2017, jus­ti­fied the project and the con­struc­tion of the new Out­door Altar in the Prayer Area of Fati­ma, a per­ma­nent work for out­door ceremonies.
The exte­ri­or Out­door Altar includes in the low­er floor a Sac­risty, a Chapel of the Sacred Reserve and sup­port areas for the priests.
The project also allowed the mobil­i­ty for the dis­abled to the old Basil­i­ca, the improve­ment of the exist­ing colon­nades and the redesign of the stair­case to access all reli­gious structures.
A fiber­glass cov­er coat­ed on both sides was stud­ied by the team project with INE­GI. The cov­er has 600 m² of sus­pend­ed area, sup­port­ed only by a block of white con­crete with­in which are all tech­ni­cal and ver­ti­cal accesses.
The build­ing’s archi­tec­ture has the inter­ven­tion of Fil­ip Moroder for the Image of Christ, João Mendes Ribeiro for the litur­gi­cal places and Fer­nan­da Fra­gateiro for the sculp­ture Matéria Espiritual.
The archi­tec­tur­al inter­ven­tion has a grand sceno­graph­ic impor­tance in a sacred place and we intend­ed it to result sub­lime and har­mo­nious in the vast pray­ing square.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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