LA ESTANCIA CHAPEL, Mexico by BNKR Arquitectura

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这是花园中的小礼拜堂，非常纯净，与环境也非常契合。看上去宛如在天堂中一般，树是为教堂而生，阳光为教堂而洒落，爱情在这里得到永存。

曾经还报道过BNKR Arquitectura的另外一个教堂项目<日落教堂 Sunset Chapel >,非常的震撼和永恒。在日落教堂中，有读者评论 “内外皆诗”“真的太美”“一见倾心”。BNKR Arquitectura的作品没有固定的风格，就像J努维尔一样，每一个项目都是一个新的开始。但是BNKR Arquitectura作品的共通之处就是，拥有一股唤起美感，诗意，遐想，渴望的力量。让人难以忘怀。

La Estancia Chapel

La Estancia Wedding Gardens were conceived in a traditional Mexican baroque colonial style. When one of Bunker’s associates decided to marry here it was made known to us that the owners had been toying for some time with the idea of building a chapel in the same style as their gardens, since all previous weddings took place under a light canvas canopy roof. They found very romantic the idea of an architect designing the chapel he would marry in so the commission was granted to us.

The client brief was pretty simple: a colonial-style closed-wall masonry chapel that blended with the surrounding architecture. This deeply troubled us…  First of all we did not believe in styles and second, it would be a shame to close the chapel to the surrounding beautiful garden. So we decided to do the complete opposite: an open glass chapel that contrasted with its surroundings. When we finally won the clients over to our design we realized we had a big problem: the wedding was in four months!

The site for the chapel was carefully chosen within an enormous area of abundant vegetation. We selected a location that would not require the removal of any of the existing plants or trees, under large jacarandas which form a natural arch over the chapel and provide it with ample shade. We strived to bring about the least possible impact on the site.

We believe Tadao Ando’s Chapel of Light is a cornerstone in the conception of modern chapels. Around the time of the commission, Steven Holl’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art had been recently inaugurated and we were deeply impressed by it. We wanted a Tadao Ando meets Steven Holl chapel.

A glass chapel in a warm tropical climate seems like a contradiction in terms. How could we avoid it from becoming a GREENHOUSE? (We disapproved of the use of air conditioning given the size of the project and the environmental issues it engenders)

The chapel was conceived as a box and compressed to form a peaked roof. Different shapes were traced on its lateral facades to form a prism which was then subtracted from the main volume. We then wrapped the four façades with U-profiled glass. In the altar façade, a cross was subtracted from the glass veil creating a window that looks out onto the surrounding garden. When the chapel was ready to start construction it was three months to the wedding. Time was pressing on…

The morning of the wedding day the bride felt the chapel was “too empty” so she called in last-minute florists to fill the “empty space” with flowers. Our pure, abstract and minimalist space finally had its “baroque touch”.

Lesson learned: In the end women always get what they want.

BNKR Arquitectura

Bunker Arquitectura is a Mexico City-based architecture, urbanism and research office foundedby Esteban Suarez in 2005 and partnered by his brother Sebastian Suarez. In their short careerthey have been able to experience and experiment architecture in the broadest scale possible:from small iconic chapels for private clients to a master plan for an entire city. Bunker´sunconventional approach to architecture has continuously generated public debate with projectssuch as a three-kilometer habitable bridge that unites the bay of Acapulco and an invertedskyscraper 300 meters deep in the main square of the historic center of Mexico City.

 

这是墨西哥某巴洛克风格花园里的婚礼小礼拜堂。一般的婚礼都在室外的轻帆布蓬里举行，而建筑师在这里有机会设计一个小建筑。

客户的要求很简单，要一个巴洛克风格的封闭墙体教堂，并与周围的建筑融合。这个要求让建筑师很困惑，因为建筑师不相信风格，其次封闭的教堂简直就是对美丽花园的侮辱。最后建筑师们做了万全相反的决定，一个开放的玻璃教堂，与周围的环境形成对比，最后业主终于接受了，但是当时只离婚礼有四个月了。

教堂的选址非常精心，不破坏场地的任何一颗树又能够获得充分的庇荫。建筑师相信安藤忠雄光的教堂是现代观念教堂的基石，同时steven holl的Nelson-Atkins艺术博物馆又将建筑师深深打动。因此建筑师想要做出一个混合这两者气质的教堂。

温暖热带气候与玻璃教堂好像是自相矛盾的两个事物，建筑师如何避免其成为一个温室（不考虑使用空调的情况下）？建筑被看成一个带有坡顶的盒子，外墙形状不一样，用U型玻璃排布上，在做一个十字架形的窗户，能看到外面。决定好一切，离婚礼只有三个月了，时间很紧……

婚礼当天，新娘觉得教堂“太空虚”，所以她赶在最后一分钟前从花店搬了许多花做点缀，于是这个纯净，抽象，简约的空间终于有了它的“巴洛克式”气质。

教训：最后女人总能得到她们想要的。

Design:
BNKR Arquitectura
Partners:
Esteban Suárez (Founding Partner) y Sebastián Suárez
Project Leader:
Paola Moire
Project Team:
Paola Moire, Ingrid Santoyo, Miguel Ángel Martínez, Diego Jasso & Guillermo Bastian
Collaborators:
Jorge Arteaga
Structural Engineer:
Juan Felipe Heredia
MEP:
Cien Acres
Construction:
BNKR Arquitectura
Area:
117 m2
Status:
Completed January 2008
Photography:
Megs Inniss & Sebastián Suárez
Location:
Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

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