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Ecumenical Chapel / BNKR

Curated by Matheus Pereira

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CHAPEL • CUERNAVACA, MEXICO

Architects: BNKR

Area :  170 m²

Year :  2013

Photographs : Jaime Navarro

Lighting :
Noriegga Illuminadores, Ricardo Noriegga, Santiago Bautista

MEP :
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Mechanical Installations :
MmasXpresiones, Sylvia Roman
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Text description provided by the architects. Some customers visited the Estancia Chapel and contacted
us to make a private chapel on their weekend house at Cuernavaca. They wanted an Ecumenical
Chapel, a non-religious chapel, a chapel to meditate.

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They also liked the Estancia Chapel, but they wanted something more discreet, something they couldnt
seen from their house but they wanted to be spectacular at the same time. They didnt referred to
something "formally spectacular ", but rather, they wanted to feel something special when they were
inside, something similar to the feeling of being in the Estancia or Sunset Chapel.

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Now ... If the Estancia Chapel celebrates life and Sunset Chapel regrets death, this third chapel to
meditate would be the midpoint between life and death, the balance point, a journey into ourselves. We
imagine a chapel buried, a lump in the ground. And in this process we include a vital element in our lives
“Water”

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By including a water mirror at ground level , from the house we only appreciate like an "intervention in
the landscape " a small stream in the garden. But when you get closer you can see a downwards ramp
that surrounds the chapel. After the tour the chapel recibes you with a beautiful Uglass entrance, then
you get in to the central space. An oculus in the metal plate that allows us to see the outside through the
water. A metal source with a large quartz in the center reflects the oculus on the floor.

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Note: This project was originally published in 17 March, 2014

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Project location

Address: Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

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