*십자가 형태의 교회건축 [ CEBRA ] New Church of Vaaler Proposal

십자가는 크리스찬을 대표하는 상징적인 아이콘입니다.

건축가가 이야기하는 건축공간에 투영된 십자가의 형태는

공간을 기능적으로 구획하는 볼륨 이상의 메세지를 이곳을 찾는 기독교인들에게 던집니다.

이것은 문화와 역사적 컨텐츠를 담고 있는 대지와 어깨를 나란히 하며

지금 우리 교회에서 필요로 하는 플렉서블과 현대적 감각이 녹아 있는

경건한 공간을 구축하는 모던건축의 강한 디자인 특성을 보여줍니다.

어쩌면 강한 비쥬얼로 승화된 아이콘이 단순하면서 명쾌한 해답을 찾아 줄 수 있습니다.

저번과 마찬가지로 화재로 소실된 지역 주민들의 커뮤니티를 담당하는 교회 재건

여기에 나무와 빛은 교회를 완성시키는 중요한 수단으로 사용됩니다.

노르웨이의 전통적인 목조건축과 만나는 빛은 교회의 방향성과 예술적 표현을

예배실과 소모임실에 깊이감 있게 불어 넣으며 교회의 경건한 분위기를

자아냅니다.

프로젝트는 이렇게 땅으로 시작된 듯한 랜드스케이프를 십자가의 형태로 변화시키며

결국에는 이지역을 대표하는 랜드마크로 승화됩니다.

reviewed by SJ

The design proposal by CEBRA for the New Church of Vaaler is based on the most widespread symbol for the Christian church: the cross. Located in the south eastern part of Norway, it is a strong visual symbol, which beautifully combines the horizontal with the vertical in its simplicity – and in its meaning the worldly with the heavenly. In the same way, the cross also represents the church’s fundamental function. More images and architects’ description after the break.

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The village of Vaaler is in need of a new church in order to replace the village’s old wooden church, which burned down to the ground in 2009. The church is of great importance for the local community – both as a social gathering point and as characterizing landscape element. Therefore, the design of the new church has to combine a particular sensitivity and attention to the site’s culture-historical context with a modern architectural expression so as to succeed in creating flexible and contemporary church facilities.

When the cross shape is tilted and the church’s roof forms a sloping plane the motif becomes visible at eye level as well as from the air, creating the same image from both points of view. The building volume appears as a stairwell or a stairway to heaven – a pictorial metaphor that can be found in several passages in the Bible and stands as a synonym for spiritual cognition.

At the main arrival area – from the existing western parking lot – the church nestles between the birch grove in the east and the cemetery. Against the backdrop of the sky, the building manifests its verticality, while at the same time accentuating its horizontality in the meeting with the human scale at the bottom of the stairs.

The placement of the new church on the eastern part of site creates a coherent spatial relationship between the existing chapel and the burned-down church. At the same time, this location permits making optimal use of the church yard’s landscape by employing the existing pathways for the staging of the arrival to the new church. The footprint of the burned-down church is preserved as a mirror pool, thereby establishing a tangible link between the past and the present. In this way, the scene of the fire’s high symbolic value to the local community is incorporated in the planning and the pool’s strong visual presence will keep a lasting remembrance in the collective memory.

Light is a fundamental element in our proposal – both in the plan layout and the orientation of the church and as a spatial and atmospheric medium for artistic expression. The church is orientated in such a way that it uses light – internally as well as externally – for the staging of cultural and church events. The project incorporates a series of techniques such as prisms, camera obscure and peg mirror in the design process in order to capture and utilize the light for supporting the liturgical and ceremonial proceedings, thus creating an additional dimension of experience.

Norway’s long tradition for the usage of wood and woodcarvings in church architecture has been a significant source of inspiration for the design of the interior of the Vaaler church. Light and wood complement and stage one another, modelling the interior spaces in the same way that light gives depth to woodcarvings. The light makes the materials come alive and in return the interior reflects and colors the light in various ways through the application of reliefs and light wells.

The centrally placed wooden core acts as a lucid and open link between the horizontal spatiality of the church’s entrance square and the vertical experience of the main space itself – thus allowing the whole nave to be brought together in a single elegant formal language. Light and wood, heaven and earth, the vertical and the horizontal create in interaction with the overall design of the proposal the framework for ecclesiastic ceremonies and events for the community in and around the new church in Vaaler.

from  archdaily