building study - the architect and the alchemist: peter zumthor's brother klaus field chapel
building study - the architect and the alchemist: peter zumthor's brother klaus field chapel
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brother klaus field chapel, mechernich, germany, cullo studio, 2014.
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architect's journal writing prize assignment (building study)
architect's journal writing prize assignment (building study)
Describe in no more that 1,000 words how a space you inhabited recently made you feel, appraising any materials the architect used to achieve that experience.
Describe in no more that 1,000 words how a space you inhabited recently made you feel, appraising any materials the architect used to achieve that experience.
We are looking for pieces that explore the fundamental craft of architecture, the skilful arrangement of materials and sensations that create comfortable and inspiring places for everyday use.
We are looking for pieces that explore the fundamental craft of architecture, the skilful arrangement of materials and sensations that create comfortable and inspiring places for everyday use.
chapel oculus
chapel oculus
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The Architect and the Alchemist: Peter Zumthor's Brother Klaus Field Chapel
The Architect and the Alchemist: Peter Zumthor's Brother Klaus Field Chapel
...Its stoic volume sits solid in the field, robust, and angular, with an earthy materiality. Inside, rugged walls dissolve into another world. Glass orbs are fixed like stars in its sooty reach, creating a galaxy of glinting lights. Inside, I am at once sheltered by the chapel’s damp, cave-like volume, and exposed. The field lies just beyond the threshold, yet here, it is gathered around me beneath the chapel’s starry night.
...Its stoic volume sits solid in the field, robust, and angular, with an earthy materiality. Inside, rugged walls dissolve into another world. Glass orbs are fixed like stars in its sooty reach, creating a galaxy of glinting lights. Inside, I am at once sheltered by the chapel’s damp, cave-like volume, and exposed. The field lies just beyond the threshold, yet here, it is gathered around me beneath the chapel’s starry night.
The form presents a subtle paradox: its sweeping interior volume not only defines and envelopes space, but dissolves into it. Its walls are carved concrete, but sometimes give way to a feeling that we are in the midst of a watery abyss swirling toward the sun. This ephemeral affect is achieved through the delicate coalescence of materiality and formmaking, and imbued with a mysticism that breathes life into Zumthor’s finely crafted gesture. The collusion of these forces results in the transformation of modest field chapel into pantheon – lending a transcendental quality to both its form and experience. It is a humble structure transcending itself to facilitate a connection to the intangible. All of this at the edge of a farmer’s field...
The form presents a subtle paradox: its sweeping interior volume not only defines and envelopes space, but dissolves into it. Its walls are carved concrete, but sometimes give way to a feeling that we are in the midst of a watery abyss swirling toward the sun. This ephemeral affect is achieved through the delicate coalescence of materiality and formmaking, and imbued with a mysticism that breathes life into Zumthor’s finely crafted gesture. The collusion of these forces results in the transformation of modest field chapel into pantheon – lending a transcendental quality to both its form and experience. It is a humble structure transcending itself to facilitate a connection to the intangible. All of this at the edge of a farmer’s field...
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