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Architects: Moneo Brock Studio
- Area: 1600 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Jorge Taboada
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Manufacturers: Artemide, DIEZ GRADOS, Espacios y prefabricados, Gama, MARMOLES SORDO NORIEGA, Mayoreo Electrico de Monterrey, Panel Rey, Protecciones Monterrey, Saul Maldonado Segura, Valerie Sautier
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Acoustics Consultant: Arau Acustics, Higini arau
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Engineering Structures: RGT Ingeniería, Gerardo Hernandez
Text description provided by the architects. The church is located on a large plaza to the southeast of a new urban development in Monterrey, Mexico. Its main entry opens right onto the plaza, and with an unobstructed width of 11.5 meters, this opening allows for the visual connection of the interior space to the plaza. The plaza can therefore function as an annex to the church, with religious celebrations and rites spilling out of doors when attending crowds exceed the church’s capacity of 350. Above the entry canopy, the façade is a large flat wall without fenestration or ornament, an emphatic and nearly square plane, declarative of the otherness of the space behind and within: the sacred space of the church interior.
