A chapel in the middle of no place has no context except conceivably a sun for light and air as a medium for sound, smell, and the sense of pressure between outside and in. The simple form of this chapel clearly references the architectural symbol for a spiritual sanctuary, but in this case the sanctuary is bifurcated, rotated and nudged in upon itself. The entirely brick envelope sweeps between 3 arches of sequential permeability. An irregular swooping rib hovers above to stitch the pieces together, and on the ground lays imprinted the result of the missing overlapping parts. Oblique to the entry but inevitably the focus is the back wall, a glistening floor-to-ceiling frame of glass block. And across from that stands a looming 30-foot tall opaque wall of brick.
Status: School Project
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Additional Credits: Professor: Katrin Terstegen