Detail of the project ed. 2024

tem­p­­lo-uni­ver­si­­tario-maria-reina-de-la-paz / Colombia

Design­er	Manuel José Jaén Posada
Loca­tion	Uni­ver­si­dad Pon­ti­f­i­cia Boli­var­i­ana Sec­cional Bucara­man­ga. Autopista Piede­cues­ta Kilómetro 7 Florid­ablan­ca. Postal code 681007. San­tander. Colombia.
Nation	Colom­bia
Design Team	-Design Arch. Manuel Jaén Posada Arch. Car­los David Montoya Arch. Car­los Andrés Betancur - Inter­nal Partners  Arch. Car­los A. Cano Bedoya Arch. San­ti­a­go López Posada - Archi­tec­tur­al Coordination Arch. Car­los A. Cano Bedoya - Archi­tec­tur­al Team Arch. Manuela Salazar Villegas Arch. San­ti­a­go Cami­lo Buitrago Arch. Juan Felipe Correa Arch. San­ti­a­go Restre­po Velásquez
Year	2016
Pho­to credits	Tem­p­lo UPB Exter­nal — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (1): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB Exter­nal — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (2): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB Exter­nal — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (3): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB Exter­nal — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (4): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB Exter­nal — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (5): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (1): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (2): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (3): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (4): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli Tem­p­lo UPB — © Fed­eri­co Cairoli (5): Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Fed­eri­co Cairoli

Pho­to external

Project descrip­tion

A recital shaped by the relief and veg­e­ta­tion hous­es the tem­ple. The assem­bly space is defined by a fold­ed roof that aris­es in the inte­gra­tion of two sec­tions, where the first one sug­gests a con­gre­ga­tion space with a more hor­i­zon­tal access pro­por­tion that invites to enter, and then, once inside, the space ris­es towards the pres­bytery where a sec­tion of ver­ti­cal pro­por­tions is devel­oped empha­siz­ing the rela­tion­ship between heav­en and earth.
The open­ing of the space frames the exist­ing mass of veg­e­ta­tion that ris­es with the relief, mak­ing this near­by land­scape a rein­ter­pre­ta­tion of the cat­e­chet­i­cal con­tent of tra­di­tion­al stained glass win­dows in Catholic tem­ples, being in this case the rela­tion­ship between man and nature the sub­ject of reflec­tion. The inte­ri­or-exte­ri­or rela­tion­ship pos­es dif­fer­ent degrees of open­ness that sift the light, open or veil the land­scape with mobile and fixed lat­tices, as well as lead the pre­vail­ing winds to the interior.

The mate­ri­als linked to the ground and the cuts in the ter­rain are heavy, such as San­tander stone, con­crete and fired brick, while the roof empha­sizes the rela­tion­ship with the sky using a met­al struc­ture and light­weight enclo­sure mate­ri­als such as asphalt fab­rics and wood.

Explana­to­ry report of the project
Down­load report

Pho­to internal

Tech­ni­cal drawings

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