Detail of the project ed. 2024

church-of-beat­­i­­fied-resti­­tute-brno-lesna-cz / Czech Republic

Design­er Marek Štěpán
Loca­tion Brno – Lesná, Nez­val­o­va street, Czech Republic
Nation Czech Repub­lic
Design Team

Author: Marek Jan Štěpán
Col­lab­o­ra­tion: Fran­tišek Brych­ta, Van­da Štěpánová, Jan Vodič­ka, Mar­tin Kopecký
Facade draw­ings: Petr Kvíčala
Year 2020
Pho­to credits

Pho­to: Boys plays nice, archive of the archi­tec­tur­al studio

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Project descrip­tion

The sacred dis­trict is defined by plateau with three basic forms — the church, the tow­er and the spir­i­tu­al cen­tre. The church is built on the ground plan of a cir­cle, an ancient sym­bol of heav­en and eter­ni­ty. The shape of full­ness, the dot in the space of the neigh­bour­hood, its spir­i­tu­al van­ish­ing point, place to rest or gath­er­ing. In its form antic­i­pates the inner silence of the enter­ing per­son. The inte­ri­or of the church cre­ates the inner uni­verse, the space for com­mu­ni­ca­tion with God. It evokes a safe feel­ing, seren­i­ty, undis­turbed by the out­side world, evokes feel­ing like in the mother’s womb. The soft and aus­tere curves of the build­ing cre­ate a dema­te­ri­alised inte­ri­or space fur­ther formed by light from the upper annu­lar win­dow encir­cling the church under the roof. This 80-meter-long win­dow depicts a rain­bow as a sym­bol of God’s people’s covenant with the Lord. The inci­dent dif­fused light is the most fun­da­men­tal sym­bol and has almost a super­nat­ur­al char­ac­ter. Con­scious­ly and uncon­scious­ly, the light in the church depicts the exis­tence of the world beyond the mate­r­i­al real­i­ty and the exis­tence of God. The asym­met­ri­cal dome is cast into plank land­scapes, the matrix of which resem­bles a fin­ger­print, God’s fin­ger sym­bol­is­ing God’s touch. The sky retroac­tive­ly reflects in the rain­bow coloured win­dow and it can be said that a cir­cle floats over Lesná. In the metaphor­i­cal spir­i­tu­al sense, the heav­en floats above Lesná. The tow­er with its floor plan of an equi­lat­er­al right-angled tri­an­gle stands apart from the church and is unlike his­toric tow­ers point­ing only like a rock­et to the heav­ens both ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal and new­ly defines the arche­type of the con­tem­po­rary church tow­er. With its 31 meters, it cre­ates a dom­i­nant for the sur­round­ing area, although it is not taller than the neigh­bour­ing pre­fab­ri­cat­ed houses.

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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