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San Rocco’s Oratory / Architettura Tommasi

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The Oratory of San Rocco is a restoration project of a historic former church, originally constructed between 1525 and 1542 in the heart of Padua's historic city center, Italy. The building stands on a site that was once a burial ground in front of the Church of Santa Lucia. Due to the significance of the monument and the increasing number of visitors drawn by temporary exhibitions, the need arose to expand its exhibition spaces and carry out a comprehensive renovation.

San Peregrino Oratory / Así! Arquitectura

Andreas Luco — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

The project is located in a very consolidated urban sector, on a busy street south of the city of Paraná. Initially, the place was an undeveloped and depopulated area in which a small temple was erected, with a gabled roof and side tower. Then, as the years progressed, the city grew and so did its immediate surroundings. The initial temple became too small for the demand it had to satisfy, and therefore a larger building is built next to it for that purpose. In a third stage, a hall, classrooms and other facilities were built. Faced with such growth, the small initial temple started to house toilets for the whole complex, degrading its symbolism and history.

Providencia Chapel / S-AR

Andreas Luco — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 02:00:00 +0000

The project is as a space to meditate and pray. Separated a few meters from the existing main chapel, this small oratory seeks to create a place for isolation and reflection.

Narrow Door House / Alberto Craveiro

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Architectural project of a building to support parish activities in Gamil, in the municipality of Barcelos. The land has an area of 14 836.00 m2 and is owned by the applicant, Factory of the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist of Gamil. The terrain has the shape of an irregular polygon, with a slightly accentuated and leafy relief. A construction of 106.18m2 on 1 floor based on a land of 14 836.00m2. The implementation of the construction was defined by the pre-existence to be recovered.

1200 Pieces Chapel / S-AR

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0000

This is a small meditation chapel. The project is a small construction for a little chapel located on a great garden. It’s a chapel to be alone and contain one self within the open space of the garden. It’s also a structure that relates to a human scale in size and to a spiritual one in use.

Oratory and Auditorium Retamar School / Artytech2

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:00:18 +0000

The Retamar School had a chapel for 250 persons, after 50 years of teaching activity and a capacity of more than 2.250 pupils, insufficient for the important annual festivities taking place in this center. We got the commission to present a proposal to substitute the existing building for a new one, with a capacity of 600 persons and an additional auditorium for 450 spectators. Our project was looking for the integration with the rest of the edification, constructed in bricks, but being a representative building for the school at the same time, standing out with its grand roof done out of green zinc.

Mortuary House in Vila Caiz / Raul Sousa Cardoso + Graça Vaz

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Integrated in a hybrid residential context which crosses urban and rural references, the mortuary house emerges as a filter between them and a universe of contemplation of the distant mountains.

Outdoor Room / MODU

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 01:00:00 +0000

MODU’s Outdoor Room project for the 5th China International Architecture Biennial creates an urban public space that reactivates Beijing's iconic Olympic Park while focusing on the air quality crisis in Beijing. The competition-winning project will be open in Beijing through November 2013 and will be installed in six other cities in China.

Cemetery and Wake Room / Schneider & Lengauer

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Situated in the heart of the village, the cemetery of Hopfgarten in Defereggen is not only a place for mourning and farewell, but also one of daily encounters. For the expansion of the area and the construction of a wake room, the municipality initiated an invited peer review. Death and mortality should fill a symbolic place in the community, which would, at the same time, also provide a "worthy and intimate" framework for the farewell rituals of mourners, according to the demand of the municipal clients. Furthermore they wanted a harmonious integration of the wake room into the existing cemetery, which is arranged around the late-baroque church. A massive natural stone wall divides the cemetery from the street, while a covered arcade, with the chapel from the 1930s, closes the site to the north.

P[RAY]HOUSE / Julian Palapa + Bayu Rismabuana

Megan Jett — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In the beginning, this mosque was a simple aspiration from the surrounding residence to celebrate Ramadhan 2011. They work together according to their own ability to donate for the mosque that will be used in Ramadhan 2011, it can be said that the social aspect in this architecture piece is so bold.

Prayer & Meditation Pavillion / Studio Tam associati

Nico Saieh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 within a ten million square km. radius and counting three hundred million inhabitants.