Lush Green Walls Protect a Pond-Topped Sunken Chapel in Mexico

设计方：BNKR Arquitectura公司

位置：墨西哥

分类：公共环境

内容：实景照片

图片来源：Jaime Navarro

图片：11张

这个下沉式教堂位于墨西哥库埃纳瓦卡，它既庄严谨慎，又壮观沉静。通过一个圆形的斜坡步道，来到了教堂的入口，这个名曰普世教堂的下沉式建筑是由BNKR Arquitectura公司设计的，提供一个沉思和冥想的空间。这个教堂并非传统意义上的正统教堂，它的外观多采用玻璃等材料，使阳光可以从外面射入室内，而屋顶则设计成一个小池塘，与室外的绿树相映衬，使得教堂充满了勃勃生机。

BNKR Arquitectura公司曾经设计过一些非传统教堂，大多也都是既壮观又谨慎的空间，而且给人一些特别的感受。此教堂其实是受客户委托，在其院子中建设的私人冥想空间，从房子里和院子里，人们几乎看不到这个教堂的存在，而教堂屋顶的小池塘，已经和整个院子的景观完美融合。

随着人进入教堂，感受也会随着变化，室外盛开的鲜花和满目的绿色，随着进入到冥想空间，人的感情也慢慢变得沉静，开始思索生死，开始思考人生。进入教堂的旅程，也是一个自我修炼的旅程。被绿墙包围着，那透过玻璃射入屋内的阳光，更让人感受到内心的平静。

译者： 饭团小组

Sunken into the ground, this round chapel in Cuernavaca, Mexico is both discreet and spectacular. Accessed via a circular ramp that flows into the ground, the Ecumenical Chapel by BNKR Arquitectura is a space for contemplation and meditation. The non-religious chapel is open to the outdoors but protected from the elements by glass bars. It is filled with daylight and topped with a pond of water, which doubles as a landscape element in the client's yard.

The clients visited BNKR Arquitectura‘s La Estaancia Chapel in Cuernavaca and loved the feel of it, so they asked the firm to design a private chapel for their own yard at their home. They asked for the chapel to be non-religious and discreet, but also a spectacular space where they would feel something special while inside. The result is a sunken chapel that is barely visible from the house and the yard. In fact, the roof is made to look like a pond that is part of the landscape.

As visitors approach the chapel, they see a downward spiral and blooming flowers that direct them down into the space. Conceived as a place for meditation, it is a space that is in between life and death and a journey down into the chapel is also a journey into one’s self. Visitors spiral into the oval space through an opening in the glass bars that form the exterior. A piece of metal and a large quartz crystal sit in the center while an oculus above pulls filtered daylight in through water on the roof and into the space. The protected zone is surrounded by vegetated walls to hush exterior noises and add life to the space.

绿墙环绕的沉没教堂外观图

绿墙环绕的沉没教堂外部局部图