The Chapel Ingá-Mirim / messina | rivas

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Itupeva, Brazil
  • Architects: messina | rivas
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  370
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
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Text description provided by the architects. The Ingá-Mirim Chapel is located on the outskirts of the city of Itupeva, 80km from São Paulo, on a 19th-century estate. We were asked to renovate the former local estate to make it an environment that responds to local celebrations of religious importance.

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We understand the idea of the architectural reform as an opportunity to reinterpret pre-existing construction, enabling new relationships between the project and the landscape. Therefore, as an act of reflection, we decided to disarm the materials of the old estate in the design of the Ingá-Mirim Chapel in order to reuse them and to give them new conditions.

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The construction was carried out in collaboration with the farm caretakers, the brothers Carlos and Charles, who previously worked in construction and now do the local preservation work. With them we experimented with how we could, through their own knowledge, reuse the materials of the old local buildings. Under these conditions, the construction process followed the schedule of the daily activities such as mowing, releasing horses or feeding cattle.

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Using the foundation of the pre-existing construction, the project is based on three stone walls by the old road that allowed access to the farm. Between these three walls, the unarmed bricks of the estate define a path that leads through spaces that seek continuity between construction and landscape, thus suggesting an open religious enjoyment.

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Address:Itupeva, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

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Cite: "The Chapel Ingá-Mirim / messina | rivas" [Capela Ingá-Mirim / messina | rivas] 14 Aug 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/922322/the-chapel-inga-mirim-messina-rivas> ISSN 0719-8884

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