Detail of the project ed. 2024

chapel-que­bra-cuia / Brazil

Design­er	RODRI­GO QUIN­TEL­LA MESSINA
Loca­tion	Moco­ca, São Paulo.
Nation	Brazil
Design Team	Fran­cis­co Rivas Rodri­go Messina
Year	2023
Pho­to credits	Pho­tos by Fed­eri­co Cairoli

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

The project is locat­ed on a farm near the city of Moco­ca, 250km from the city of São Paulo in Brazil. We were asked to ren­o­vate a chapel that had been unused for a while and there­fore need­ed to be reac­ti­vat­ed for the reli­gious rit­u­als of res­i­dents and work­ers in the region.

Locat­ed on a plateau in the very cen­ter of the ter­ri­to­ry, the vol­ume of pre-exis­­tence that stands out in the land­scape is crossed by a sin­gle main door and a few windows.

Start­ing from the most var­ied paths that give access to the church, in the inter­ven­tion, when we demol­ished the transepts and trans­formed them into large win­­dow-doors, the chapel becomes part of the cross­ings paths and presents itself as a place of encounter in the land­scape, that is, a reli­gious space .

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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