Detail of the project ed. 2020

WALSER ARCHITEK­TURTEAM – CHURCH

Design­er Marc Walser
Loca­tion Freiburgstr. 73, 3280, Murten, Freiburg, Switzerland
Design Team

Walser Architek­turteam
Year 2018
Pho­to credits

All Pho­tos by: Marc Walser

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

Murten Church

Promi­nent appearance:

The new church con­vinces through its self-con­­fi­­dent appear­ance at this busy loca­tion in the indus­tri­al area at the edge of the city of Murten.
The build­ing is divid­ed into two main bod­ies: The hall which is 11 meters high and the side wing which is 3.80 meters high. Those two struc­tures close the space against the street. Togeth­er with the sur­round­ing wall,
the plant room and the four exist­ing plane trees they build a pro­tect­ed out­side space from where one can enter the foy­er. The hall offers 150 seats and grants the build­ing with its big hight the required pres­ence in this bar­ren landscape.

Sacral atmos­phere:

The inside of the hall with its sev­en nar­row win­dows on the north­side and the gen­er­ous sky­light above the altar, gets a dis­tinct sacral char­ac­ter through its intro­vert­ed design.
The smooth sand­blast­ed con­crete ele­ments give the walls a nice tex­ture. The rough­ly stacked altar­wall stands in con­trast to the smooth, white, greek mar­ble on the back­side of the altar.
While the rough wall breaks the sun­light from above, the fine mar­bel reflects it. The ceil­ing, the gallery and the bench­es made out of spruce wood and the floor out of bro­ken schist under­line the sacral character.
This sup­ports the believ­ers with their con­tem­pla­tion and the con­nec­tion with the divine light.

Opti­mal room allo­ca­tion plan:

From the pro­tect­ed fore­court, the vis­i­tors can enter the gen­er­ous and bright foyer.
It cre­ates the con­nec­tion between the hall and the side­rooms of the church. At the same time it works as a meet­ing place and gives space for dif­fer­ent col­lec­tive events.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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