StudiOZ designed a mosque in Kayseri Municipality in memory of Sinan, the architect because historically, the Turkish mosque reached its highest potential under his design. Using a single dome placed upon a square form, Sinan created a metaphor of the mosque being the most stable form to symbolize  infinity.  Hundreds of years after Sinan, the mosque typology is still viewed as an indispensable component of Turkish life.   For the StudiOZ’s proposal, “The Mosque” criticizes this holy and public place by reforming benefits to urban space, symbolically and functionality of the building.

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Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos‘s latest project is an open chapel in La Calera, Colombia that is gently nestled into the surroundings.   The simplicity of the geometry adds a touch of elegance to the pious space, as the natural features of the environment, wind and light, create “an essential harmony.”

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Let’s finish this religious week as we start it, with a fantastic selection of religious architecture projects we’ve been featuring in AD. Check them all after the break.

Field Chapel in Boedigheim / Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology
The Field Chapel is a project designed and executed by the students of an Advanced De-sign/Build Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago for a ecumenical church co-operative in Boedigheim, Germany. Led by Professor Frank Flury, the project was assisted on a pro bono basis by the firm of Ecker Architekten (Buchen, Germany) with the craftsmen, volunteer workers and townspeople of the Odenwald/Bauland, a rural region in northern Baden-Württemberg (read more…) read more »

R. Miller Architecture shared with us their design for the Air Force Village Chapel competition, for which they received a 2010 unbuilt AIA Orlando award for design excellence. See more images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

Visiondivision never fails to share interesting projects with us, whether it be their zoo/waterfall or their latest – a chapel for Tio, an evil devil that owns a mountain in Bolivia. As unusual as it may sound, miners in Bolivia are faced with awful working conditions inside a mountain, and claim that Tio is responsible for claiming the 8 million lives that have been lost within the mountain.  The project is a shrine to Tio, and will serve as a place the miners can leave gifts for the devil so he does not harm the men working in the mountain.

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Krasnja, Slovenia
Competition Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2008-2009
Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Janez martincic, Magdalena Lacka, Katja Aljaz, Martina Lipicer
Constructed Area: 135 sqm (70 sqm of inner space & 65 sqm of external space)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Architects: Domitianus Arquitectura
Location: Santos-o-Velho, Lisboa, Portugal
Architect in Charge: Paulo Tormenta Pinto
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Domitianus Arquitectura

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Architects: Roman Vukoja & Robert Križnjak
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Collaborators: Martina Križnjak, Ana Iskra (Ured ovlaštenog arhitekta Robert Križnjak, Croatia)
Structural engineer: Pero Šarušic ( Pprojekt d.o.o., Croatia)
Contractor: Josip Švenda (Team d.d., Croatia)
Client: Mr Josip Horvat (Zagreb Archdiocese, St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Travno quarter, Zagreb)
Project area: 2,100 sqm
Project Year: 2002
Construction Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Ivica Bralic

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Beijing Sunlay Design Office designed a Protestant Church in Inner Mongolia that takes its inspiration from the land’s topography.  Set on top of a hill of Ordos, the scheme, entitled “Dove of Peace” gives its metaphor and poetry to the church by re-interpreting a contemporary and abstract silhouette of the bird carrying an olive branch.  Made of concrete and with the facades finished in white crepi,  the church’s form follows the adjacent curved road that crosses the site. “The dialogue between the outside and the inside space is emphasized by the play of shadows and light that creates complexity and depth in the reading of the space.”  Delicate streams of light reflect harmony and tranquility, providing the perfect atmosphere for prayer and contemplation.

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German architects kadawittfeldarchitektur have shared with us their proposal for the new building of the Catholic Provost Parish Church, St. Trinitatis competition in Leipzig, Germany. Their proposal was finalist in a 2009 competition. You can see more images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

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Architects: Kunze Seeholzer Architektur&Stadtplanung
Location: Kolbermoor, Germany
Client: Private, Franz Stettner, Kolbermoor
Structural Engineer: Stefan Baur
Project Area: 17.1 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Jann Averwerser & Kunze Seeholzer

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Architects: Supersudaka / Juan Pablo Corvalán & Gabriel Vergara
Location: Villa la Paz, Talca, Chile
Collaborators: Pablo Sepúlveda, Jaime Pavez
Mosaic: Simón Fuentes / Simbiotika
Engineers: Cesar Moreira / Sigma Ingenieros
Project Area: 200 sqm
Budget: US $64,700
Project Year: 2006–2009
Photographs: Supersudaka

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Architects: Jasmax
Location: Waiuku, New Zealand
Client: Manukau City Council
Team Members: David Mahon, Hamish Boyd, Jeremy Bennett, Matt Robinson & Sandeep Ram
Budget: $1.5 M
Project Completed: 2006
Photographer: Simon Devitt

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Architects: Randić & Turato / Saša Randić and Idis Turato
Location: Rijeka, Croatia
Project team: Sinisa Glusica, Gordan Resan, Iva Cuzela-Bilac, Ana Stanicic (Technical Architects)
Contractor: Aljosa Travas
Client: Franciscan monastery Trsat
Total built surface: 1,048 sqm
Design year: 2003
Construction date: 2008
Photographs: Robert Leš

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Architect: Beton / Marta Rowińska & Lech Rowiński
Location: Tarnów, Poland
Building Team: Local Semi-Professional Builders
Investor: Well-known Polish Writer
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Beton

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Architects: VJAA
Location: Collegeville, Minnesota, USA
Client: Saint John’s Abbey
Constructed area: 17.4 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: © Paul Crosby

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Architects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by  Professor Frank Flury
Local architect: Ecker Architekten
Location: Boedigheim, Germany
Client: Protestant Church of Bödigheim
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo, Brigida Gonzalez
Website: Flurkapelle Buchen/Bödigheim

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Architects: PLAN 01 architects
Location: Rennes Métropole, France
Project team: Jean Bocabeille, Anne-Cécile Comar, Philippe Croisier, Christophe Ouhayoun, Stéphane Pertusier, Ignacio Prego, Dominique Vitti, Anne-Charlotte Zanassi, Julien Zanassi and Nicolas Ziesel
Project manager: Daniela Miccolis
Project year: 2005-2009
Site Area: 1,100 sqm
Budget: US $2,72 M
Photographs: © Luc Boegly & Stéphane Chalmeau

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Against tough competitors, such as Rafael Viñoly, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Foreign Office Architects, the competition to design the Jewish Community Center was awarded to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.  The 30,000 sqf JCC project will emphasize an arts and community center that aims to bring “light, life and activity back to the street.”  Situated on a heavily trafficked road, the JCC will include a three story linear pavilion that will create a “landscaped piazza and relate to the Camden Arts Center’s gardens” opposite the site.

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Religion is one of the most important and traditional subjects in the world, and also part of architecture. Check our first part of previoulsy featured religious projects, and then enjoy our second part.

Church of 2000 / Richard Meier
Located in the eastern suburban area of Rome, the Church of 2000 “Dives in Misericordia” by architect Richard Meier is the first realized work of the American architect in the Italian capital, followed by the Ara Pacis Museum (2005). The importance of this project is to give value and attraction to the deepest and most far suburbs in Rome (read more…)

New Church in Foligno / Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas
The project was won in 2001 after a national competition organized by the Conferenza Episcopale Italiana for the construction of new churches, the jury gave the following reasons for choosing, “as a sign of innovation that meets the latest international research, becoming a symbol of rebirth for the city after the earthquake (read more…)

Prayer & Meditation Pavillion / Studio Tam associati
The prayer and meditation pavilion is an integral part of the recently realized Cardiac surgery centre in Sudan, built by the Italian humanitarian organization, EMERGENCY NGO. The complex, planned and designed by Tamassociati architecture studio, is the only one of its kind to provide free health-care to patients in an extensive area (read more…)

Chapel in Villeaceron / S.M.A.O.
The idea of situating and relating a series of objects in the landscape- Dwelling, Chapel, Hunting pavilion and Guard´s residence- gave the project a dual significance: in addition to the close relationship between landscape, objects and itinerary -between space and objects-, each item had to provide a different response with different emphasis (read more…)

Veneza Farm Chapel / Decio Tozzi
Two plastic elements leave a mark on the landscape. Two signs of profound resonance: One, the curved roof Shelter of Men. The other, the Cross of Christ Combine with the landscape. This delicate relationship creates a space within the lake shore landscape – a void that delineates the small temple (read more…)