*유타 교회 리노베이션 프로젝트 [ Sparano + Mooney ] St Joseph the Worker Church

유타, 두개의 타원형으로 구성된 교회가 리노베이션 된다.

기존 컨텐츠를 최대한 활용하는 건축계획은

오래된 콘크리트 구조물 위에 새로운 스틸, 구리, 핸드메이드 나무가

덧 붙여지며 교회를 재구성해 나간다.

그리고 원통형 콘크리트 외벽면을 따라 디자인된

다양한 스케일, 컬러의 오프닝은 시간의 흔적을 간직한

외부장소와 신성한 공간을 통합시키는 매개도구로 작용한다.

이렇게 신과 사람과 공간은 하나가 된다.

reviewed by SJ

Utah Church References Mining History

Two offset ellipses constitute the main body of a new church in West Jordan, Utah. A place of worship for a Catholic community, the 2136-sq-m church comes to substitute a modest structure built by the parish’s tradespeople in 1965.

American studio Sparano + Mooney had the old church and the neighbourhood’s working class background as a mining community in mind as they created the circular plan. ‘The design of the new church reuses fundamental elements of the old structure, and incorporates new steel, copper and hand-crafted wood components to reference the parish’s mining and construction history,’ the architects explain.

The offset ellipses reference the uninhabitable poche walls typical of the historical sacred architecture. The depth of these spaces which now serve liturgical functions is betrayed by a series of coloured apertures of different sizes that extend through the thickened wall.

According to the architects, besides taking the community back to the mining history of the early parish, the design ‘details ordinary materials to become extraordinary.’ For instance the board-concrete walls of the main sanctuary were constructed in the traditional method and flat seam roofing techniques were used to clad the Day Chapel and the altar’s skylight structure with copper panels, thus expressing ‘the transformation of the raw material by the worker’.

The sanctuary and Day Chapel, a circular courtyard, as well as gathering, liturgical, support and vesting spaces all feature in the programme of the St Joseph the Worker Church.

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from  frameweb