Detail of the project ed. 2020

4ZET – MOR­TU­ARY CHAPEL

Design­er VAR­DAY ZSOLT
Loca­tion LENGYELFAL­VA / POLONI­TA, HARGHI­TA coun­ty, ROMANIA
Design Team

archi­tec­ture stu­dio 4ZET ARCHITECTS
arch.VÁRDAY ZSOLT and arch.BOTH ANDRÁS

Year 2015
Pho­to credits

arch. Vár­day Zsolt

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Project descrip­tion

Pri­ma­ry inspi­ra­tion comes from the icon­ic image of small catholic chapels on dis­tant crests, still met on the ancient land of the tran­syl­van­ian seclars. The par­tial­ly under­ground chapel in the hill­side ceme­tery is meant to be per­ceived at a reduced scale being the first built object met on the road approach­ing the vil­lage set­tled in the val­ley. The whole build­ing becomes vis­i­ble only from the low­er access plat­form, show­ing itself towards the vil­lage mere­ly as a sharp accent above the hill­side orchards. The trans­par­ent view along the chapel’s axis is respect­ful­ly focused on the vil­lage’s old church, assum­ing the sub­servient role in the dis­tant archi­tec­tur­al dia­logue. Shad­ed by the high north­ern tym­pan, the ful­ly under­ground mor­tu­ary cham­ber needs no refrig­er­at­ing devices to ful­fill it’s main goal. Beyond inte­gra­tion into an untouched nat­ur­al land­scape, the hid­ing ges­ture serves the trans­fer of east-euro­­pean tra­di­tions of rit­u­al hid­ing for grieving.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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