Detail of the project ed. 2024

chapel-in-sier­ra-la-vil­la / Spain

Design­er	J. C. San­cho, Sol Madridejos
Loca­tion	Car­retera N420 — Km354, Vil­laes­cusa de Haro (16647), Cuen­ca, Spain
Nation	Spain
Design Team	Víc­tor Alon­so, Daniel G. Mari­nas, Ele­na Mira, Félix Bel­li­do, Peio Errote­ta, Ger­ar­do Martín
Year	2021
Pho­to credits	All pho­tos by Hisao Suzuki

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Project descrip­tion

In hilly cen­tral Spain, in Cuen­ca, in a rur­al estate with cen­te­nary holm oaks and truf­fle cul­ti­va­tion, we joint­ly designed a chapel and a house for the own­ing family.
The chapel is devel­oped from a sin­gle curved fold, con­cep­tu­al­ly and in its approach relat­ed to the Chapel in Val­leac­erón. These folds need to be built in rein­forced con­crete so that they may work in a sin­gle and cor­rect fash­ion. Like­wise, struc­ture, shape and space are devel­oped from the same ges­ture. Light allows this space to be appre­ci­at­ed in its character.
In this project the curved fold is a response to com­plex exter­nal stress­es of a topo­log­i­cal action. It is not an origa­mi, it is a for­mal topo­log­i­cal expres­sion — in struc­tur­al equi­lib­ri­um -, that responds to these out­er strains. It is con­ceived with an ample entrance, that wel­comes, that leads towards a com­pressed end. A big hang­ing cross in con­crete pierces the fold and cre­ates light open­ings fac­ing cer­tain direc­tions, cast­ing dif­fer­ent lights through­out the day, mod­i­fy­ing the space inside bit by bit, con­tin­u­ous­ly. The spa­tial expe­ri­ence is oppo­site to the one con­veyed in the Chapel in Valleacerón.
We chose the spe­cif­ic loca­tion of the chapel so that it becomes a ref­er­ence point both from the access of the estate and from the road towards it, that spin and cir­cles around it when approaching.

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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