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Capilla filamentario
Filamentario chapel
Architecture
Contemporary
Location
Las Grullas Residencial, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco
Year
2015
Design
Francisco Morales,
Divece Arquitectos
The architectural concept of the Filamentario Chapel is to create a processional scheme, a perimeter route that favors the preparatory recollection for religious worship; the traditional axial and finite scheme, which ends at the altar, is inverted to create a procession that takes the altar as the center of the composition.
The location of the chapel idealizes the duality of absence and presence; it is a building that is constructed but also excavated. It is like an archaeological find that forces us to make a downward journey that is rewarded with the surprise of accessing from the back to keep the atrial cross as the axis of the project.
Moreover, these fragile filaments, which flood the interior with their luminosity, weave a close relationship between the outer edges and the covered space. The light enhances their presence and reveals to us the volume of absence, a manifestation that the corporeal and the ethereal are part of the same thing.
This is a space of faith where light materializes in forms that contain and transform it, assimilate it and emanate it to make a composition of dualities in search of the perfect balance; the corporeal and the ethereal are accompanied to achieve a discourse where the material and the spiritual are harmonized to form a single space of art and meditation.
