Church / Kuadra Studio

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As this Church befits its central role in the community, this project also acts as a landmark and point of congregation for all in the area of Piacenza, Italy. The aim of Kuadra Studio is to keep the religious function of the building to the forefront while incorporating the necessary space and facilities for other, everyday activities. The concept for the design came from the idea of leaves: emphasizing the natural attachment to the earth and at the same time the spiritual detachment from it, creating a dynamic floating form to inspire worshipers with a material recreation of an ideal of the Church connecting earth and heaven. More images and architects’ description after the break.

The two undulating leaves of the Church form the wall and the roof of the building; the former, seeming to rise up out of the ground and fold around itself, recalls a great stone wall, earthly and solid. The latter, ethereal and eternal, floats in a mystical breeze above the ground like a radiant sail, sparkling with points of light, to become the crowning feature of the project and offer shelter to the ground floor buildings. The whole confers a sacred mystical quality to the Church, suspended between heaven and earth, lightness and solidity, the temporal Church and religious belief.

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "Church / Kuadra Studio" 15 Apr 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/127099/church-kuadra-studio> ISSN 0719-8884

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