New Edition / Competion / Brief / Jury / Calendar / Download / Subscription / Partners / Supported project / FAQ / Winning Projects
The sacred space is created around the concept of peace, protection, introspection and discovering the inner landscape.
The volume is a 9 meter wide cube. It doesn't reveal itself as a cube from the public square near the sit: the solid block of clay reveals only its cracked texture and seems to be patiently waiting for us to discover it.
The entirety of the building is to be made in natural materials such as clay and reinforced with wood. Having been completely built by hand, the space becomes infused with human beings' energy, thus forming a permanent connection between the fingerprint of divinity -the light - and the fingerprints of man- gently submerged in clay.
A descent below the ground level foregoes the acces in the volume: it is a simbolic descent, reminding of the burial ritual. At the opposite pole, the interior is a metaphor of birth.
After descending we do not find obscurity, but a space shaped by light: the sacred space is revealing itself as a womb-like, warm and protecting space. The interior is entirely coated in warm twines. Thus the exterior and the interior present themselves as two different worlds, through lightning, texture, warmth and also scent. The circle is another symbol present in the project, that through its perfect shape is a emergence of sacred. The light purges the space by entering through a circular oculus in the ceiling. It also has a correspondent on the floor: a circle of pure soil.
A vertical axis connects the two: a circle of earth and one of light, like a link between the earthly and the sacred.
