Spectacular Chapel in Bogota Colombia by Daniel Bonilla Architects
Spectacular Chapel design in Bogota Colombia
Located in La Calera Bogotá, Colombia, this miraculous chapel is designed by Architects Daniel Bonilla together with his design team including Akira Kita and Ana Lucia Cano. Called Porciúncula de la Milagrosa Chapel, this unique chapel has a basic geometry that tries to alter the territory as little as possible. It uses the natural features of the environment, the wind and the light, to create an essential harmony. The chapel is designed to open to the outside to allow worshipers to gather in mass, this architectural design appeases both small private groups and large public functions, in a country full of contrasts, making this transformation a symbolic within itself.
Porciuncula de la Milagrosa Chapel
The relation between a still and a mobile volume represents “the passage between two worlds, between the known and the unknown, the light and the darkness. As the door opens, a mystery is revealed, and has a dynamic and psychological value, not only showing us a landscape, but inviting us to pass trough it.
Cool Chapel interior design by Daniel Bonilla Architects
This change of focus, scale and perspective, transforms the component of the chapel; the space for the altar turns into the space for the choir, the main nave transforms into the lateral nave and the tabernacle becomes part of the landscape. To make all aforementioned things possible, the placement of the building was scrupulously studied.
Church Seating design
The materials work on these same principles, they mimic the natural surroundings. In this way the rigid structures are static as the stones, while the mobile body made of steel, glass and wood form an interwoven design. The reflecting pond, on one of the chapel’s sides, dilutes the massive structure into the landscape, and it also accents and distorts the volume to make its density to fade away.
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Unique Chapel design in Bogota Colombia
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