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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Saint Father Brochero Chapel in Cordoba, Argentina by Federico OchoaJune 2nd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Federico Ochoa How to build a chapel in honor of a saint without falling into literal reminiscences? This was the starting point and the biggest challenge of designing a chapel for the first Argentine saint. The most logical solution was, “designing with Brocherian spirit, folowing the values and the intentions of the priest but without falling in morphologic repetitions”.  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa
 Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa First and foremost Father Brochero who was well know because of his social promotion, worked with his feet on the ground and his eyes in the heaven, the chapel emerges from the earth with a rhomboidal shape, while raising it transforms, each section undergoes a metamorphosis process until it ends in a vertex that points to the sky. Also the “Gaucho priest” used to built with local techniques such as clay, straw and wood. This materials are replaced with contemporaneous ones: concrete, steel and aluminum. Finally Saint Brochero always relied on the capacities of his “sheep herd”, regardless of the building complexity that the chapel demanded, the entirely team of workers were local people.  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa In a religious typology the significant and the symbolic have a primordial role in the understanding of the sacred space. This chapel dedicated to the first Argentine saint , a very special person, demanded very special desing. The exterior and interior of the building evidenced a modern language capable of communicating with modern man but with strong roots in tradition. The “plasticity” of Concrete makes it the ideal material to capture the significant morphology of the chapel. Structure, function and space are unify by the two hyperbolic paraboloids of 8 centimeters thickness. The interior space of the chapel is completed with austere and close character materials, present in any local home: bricks, wood and stone.  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa The centralized distribution, evoques the last supper, institution of the Eucharist, origin of the Holy Mass, easter dinner in where the Christians gathered and participate of the agape around a domestic table.  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa Last but not least, the perception of light has a strong connection with the experience of God’s grace. God is invisible to our eyes, yet his action and grace fill up our lives. The “source” of light of the chapel is inaccessible to the eye, however the clarity floods everywhere while the sacred space is revealed to us.  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa  Image Courtesy © Federico Ochoa
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