The Farewell Chapel by OFIS Architects
The Slovenian OFIS Architects have completed the Farewell Chapel in a village close to Ljubljana.
Full description after the photos….
A photo of the site before construction:
The site during construction:
Photos by Tomaz Gregoric
Project Description:
The farewell chapel is located in a village close to the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The site plot is next to the existing graveyard. The chapel is cut into the rising landscape. The shape is following the lines of the landscape trajectories around the graveyard. Three curved walls are embracing and dividing the programs. External curve is dividing the surrounding hill from chapel plateau and also reinstates main supporting wall. Services such as storages, wardrobe restrooms and kitchenette are on the inner side along the wall. Internal curve is embracing main farewell space. It is partly glazed and it is opening towards outside plateau for summer gatherings. Roof is following its own curvature producing external porch. Catholic sign is featured as laying cross positioned on the rooftop above the main farewell space. It also functions as luminous dynamic element across the space during the daytime and lighting spark in night time. Materials are polished concrete, larch wood, glass.
Visit the OFIS Architects website – here.
creativefolks.net on 16 Jun 2009 at 8:07 pm #
Why not show the rest of the inside? Is it that it’s just dull or still being worked on?
Dave on 16 Jun 2009 at 8:42 pm #
The rest is probably just a storage room.
Tom on 16 Jun 2009 at 8:48 pm #
This is incredibly elegant, and I think it will be quite effective in encouraging the quiet contemplation appropriate for its locale
Marcus on 17 Jun 2009 at 10:40 am #
Simply beautiful. Amazing new change to how the site looked before.
Michael Nash on 28 Jun 2009 at 7:42 pm #
Keeping the “spirit” of John Lautner alive…
hZ! on 13 Nov 2009 at 1:38 pm #
We need to see the rest of it, because we are only so far seeing the vestibule of the snail’s shell. The inside of the spiral, the part unseen, is the inner sanctum. To cheat us of that is unfair after suggesting it in the design.
But what a beautiful metaphor; the building almost inside the hill, the ceiling like the ground above, us inside as if interred, and the cross overhead all made of sky.