Excerpt: Sarzedela Chapel by Bruno Dias Arquitectura is an architectural project focused on revitalizing and creating a harmonious interior space. The program redefines spatial richness by incorporating lights, transparencies, and broad perspectives, transforming the existing white walls into a calm, light space, showcasing religious spatiality, respecting heritage, and reusing existing objects.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Situated in a village near the town of Ansiao is a chapel that, after being abandoned and abused, continues to prove its soundness. Although it continued to be consumed by time, resting in silence, waiting for a guarantee of its maintenance and use, the building was in an advanced state of degradation. However, over time, some interventions damaged the experience of the chapel and its structural condition.
After a thorough analysis of the history of the chapel, history records and experiences of the former inhabitants, the project started in 2010 for the first time in its history, affected the entire building. Complex process which was seconded and sobreposeram activities of restoration, rehabilitation and restoration.
It proposed to repay the missing comfort in the space, giving it a character of permanence. Through a set of interventions intended to bring internal coherence to the whole of the operations provided in the building in consideration Memory Chapel.
This project was based on the revitalization of the chapel interior space, creating a harmonious space, a particularly sensitive program, developing a language based on respect for the existing heritage and its architectural character.
Recovering the asymmetric arrangement of the interior, the historical memory of the building, establishing relationships analogy with the functional core of the existing battered and mutilated, it would regain its old dimensions. The new construction system based, wherever possible, the recovery of the original structures, replacing the old wooden beams, which however had collapsed or disappeared.
The new spatial configuration would change the relationship between the void and the built environment, proposing more close relationships with comfort. Great spatial richness clarified by changing its scale with the program, in which the lights, transparencies and broad prospects assumed a leading role in defining the new spaces, taking as its premise the existing avowedly abstract and scenographic white walls, conveying calm and lightness to the space, staging religious spatiality, ensuring a current intervention, respecting the existing heritage and its architectural character, giving it a scenographic spatiality reusing existing objects, thus creating its identity based on the history values.
The project developed in line with the villagers, removing as much history in the chapel, thus ensuring an intervention experienced by everyone, creating a closeness of dwelling prematurely.
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