Detail of the project ed. 2024

chapel-of-all-valaam-saints / Montenegro

Design­er	Andrey Anisi­mov
Loca­tion	Valaam island, Sor­tavala dis­trict, Repub­lic of Kare­lia, 186756
Nation	Rus­sia
Design Team	The author of the project and con­struc­tion man­ag­er is archi­tect Andrey Anisimov. Archi­tects: S. Vasiliev, S. Kan­terin, O. Petrashko. Artists: O. Roma­nenko, V. Borisenko, O. Petrashko.
Year	2016
Pho­to credits	Pho­to archive from the col­lec­tion of Andrey Anisimov

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Project descrip­tion

The com­plex is locat­ed on the rocky shore of Lake Lado­ga and con­sists of two chapels locat­ed on nat­ur­al hills and a view­ing plat­form for pil­grims with a cafe, con­nect­ed by gal­leries and a stone cross in the square in front of the entrance.
The chapels are built of wood in the tra­di­tions of the nation­al archi­tec­ture of Kare­lia and north­ern Rus­sia and placed on nat­ur­al stone foundations.
The inte­ri­ors look unex­pect­ed for wood­en archi­tec­ture and resem­ble Romanesque church­es with ele­gant stone carv­ings, mosa­ic icons with gold smalt, mar­ble and moth­­er-of-pearl, and forged iron elements.
The com­plex is locat­ed on the ter­ri­to­ry of an ancient monastery, in the area of ​​a nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al reserve, and the author’s main idea was to har­mo­nious­ly fit the build­ing into nature, not to attract much atten­tion to it, to keep nature and the his­tor­i­cal build­ings of the monastery as the main object of attention.
The wood is impreg­nat­ed with anti-rot and fire-pre­ven­­tion agents, but is not paint­ed; Over time, it takes on the nat­ur­al col­or of old wood and blends in with the sur­round­ing for­est. And the mason­ry seams are not filled with mor­tar, which gives them a resem­blance to wild stones on a rocky shore.

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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