Detail of the project ed. 2024

russ­ian-monastery-of-st-george-goetschen­­dorf-in-bran­­den­burg / Germany

Design­er Sergei Tchoban
Loca­tion Goetschen­dorf 33, 17268 Milmersdorf-Goetschendorf
Nation Ger­many
Design Team

Archi­tect: Sergei Tchoban, project part­ner: Philipp Bauer, project leader: Karsten Wald­schmidt, Simon Bange (stages 1–4, 6); Dirk Kol­lendt (stage 5), Kat­ja Fuks (stages 6–8), team: Natalia von Krücht­en, Ramona Schwarzweller, Ingo Schwarzweller
Year 2017
Pho­to credits

3629_Exterior_ct007_by_Christian_Thiel, Copy­right Chris­t­ian Thiel;
3629_Exterior_03_9360‑R©LevChestakov, Copy­right Lev Chestakov;
3629_Exterior_ct002_by_Christian_Thiel, Copy­right Chris­t­ian Thiel;
3629_Exterior_Winter_c_Sergei_Tchoban, Copy­right Sergei Tchoban;
3629_Exterior_05_9514©LevChestakov, Copy­right Lev Chestakov;
3629_Interior_11_9479©LevChestakov, Copy­right Lev Chestakov;
3629_Interior_Drawings2_Irina Zatulovskaja_c_Sergei_Tchoban, Copy­right Sergei Tchoban;
3629_Interior_Drawings3_Irina Zatulovskaja_c_Sergei_Tchoban, Copy­right Sergei Tchoban;
3629_Interior_Drawings4_Irina Zatulovskaja_c_Sergei_Tchoban, Copy­right Sergei Tchoban;
3629_Interior_Drawings5_Irina Zatulovskaja_c_Sergei_Tchoban, Copy­right Sergei Tchoban.

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Project descrip­tion

The monastery church of St. George was built by order of the Dio­cese of Berlin and Ger­many of the Russ­ian Ortho­dox Church. 

Locat­ed in the front part of the plot the church build­ing became a new sig­nif­i­cant eye-catch­er of the site. Despite its Russ­ian-Byzan­­tine build­ing tra­di­tion with cupo­la, round lantern and onion dome the church is of touch­ing plain­ness with its mod­i­fied and sim­pli­fied forms. The four-gabled vol­ume with­out a plinth has a qua­drat­ic foot­print with lat­er­al length of 17 meters, 10 meters head­room in the cupo­la and a cen­tral spire of 6 meters height. Three aps­es extend the foot­print in the altar area. The reli­gious wall draw­ings are by the artist Iri­na Zatulovskaja.

Far from big ges­tures the church does not con­trast with the sur­round­ing build­ings but is ful­ly inte­grat­ed into the exist­ing com­plex. Some few details accen­tu­ate the façades. Bricks in a bright beige-grey palette were addi­tion­al­ly white­washed which, depend­ing on the light sit­u­a­tion, evokes a slight sil­ver or gold­en shim­mer. Sim­i­lar to this effect the light grey shin­gled roofs seem to have a slight metal­lic glow in the sunlight. 

The curved nar­row wood­en cor­nices empha­size the round­ed forms of the aps­es. The dou­ble jamb of the main door along with the stepped win­dow cladding and pilaster strips gives the façades some more depth and move­ment. Nar­row ver­ti­cal win­dows reduce the inter­ac­tion of the inner space with the sur­round­ing and under­line the sacral char­ac­ter of the building. 

The church offers space for about 200 peo­ple: After hav­ing passed through the semi­cir­cle inner vestibule the vis­i­tor finds an art­less, calm inte­ri­or and gazes to the limed crossed-dome and to the cylin­der of the light roof lantern.

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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