Detail of the project ed. 2024

ressurec­­tion-chapel / Austria

Design­er Tom Lech­n­er
Loca­tion Straß (vis a vis pri­ma­ry school), 4881 Straß im Atter­gau, Austria
Nation Aus­tria
Design Team

DI Tom Lechner
Year 2020
Pho­to credits

Albrecht Imanuel Schnabel

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Project descrip­tion

The Res­ur­rec­tion Chapel, sit­u­at­ed in the exten­sion of an old grav­el pit, defines a new meet­ing place for Straß through its loca­tion. A con­crete brack­et fac­ing the slope forms the dis­tinc­tive con­clu­sion of the local topog­ra­phy and defines the address of the chapel. Via a casu­al­ly designed fore­court, you are led through a cov­ered entrance into the ante­room, from where you are divert­ed at the end and led from behind into the open chapel room striv­ing upwards.
Through its reduc­tion to con­struc­tion and mate­ri­al­i­ty, this cre­ates an atmos­phere that hides every­day life and thus invites you to pause. At the top, the space-defin­ing walls dis­solve into their con­struc­tion and, in com­bi­na­tion with the ver­ti­cal facade struc­ture, the hor­i­zon­tal slats in the inte­ri­or and the inci­dence of light, cre­ate a sacred atmos­phere and unmis­tak­able identity.
The pos­si­ble uses of the Res­ur­rec­tion Chapel include non-denom­i­­na­­tion­al pur­pos­es such as devo­tions, ser­vices or cel­e­bra­tions on the one hand and cul­tur­al events on the other.
“The pur­pose of a chapel seems sim­ple, but its design inter­pre­ta­tion is var­ied. From the clas­sic design lan­guage to the archi­tec­tur­al avant-garde, one tries to break out of the stan­dard­ized built every­day life and to ask ques­tions. Ques­tions that can­not only be answered by the loca­tion and the func­tion alone, but rather by an indi­vid­ual exam­i­na­tion of the idea of a “high­er order”.
The Chapel of the Res­ur­rec­tion is my response to an approach via archi­tec­ture. Archi­tec­ture in an unvar­nished way, hon­est and mod­est in con­struc­tion and mate­ri­al­i­ty, self-con­­fi­­dent in expres­sion and unmis­tak­able in its iden­ti­ty.” (Arch. Tom Lechner)

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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