lakeside chapel

The chapel is like a box of extruded concrete where two covers are removed without offering any closure to the ground, it projects over the ground and generate sensations of floating between trees or even flying over the lake. The only existing furniture, besides the pews, is a simple altar that appears to float on a reflecting pool, which in turn creates an endless effect with the lake. The only metal support shortens the longest stretch of beams, which is not perceived because it is ”the cross”.

The design was developed respecting a combination of plains and slopes in the site, and the constant relationship to the lake. The chapel is intended as a landscape scene and is handled like an austere space with a single material, to highlight the lake and mountains.