雪圣母教堂（Our Lady of the Snows Church）位于加拿大拉布拉多Sheshatshiu的因努人社区，毗邻梅尔维尔湖，能够俯瞰米利山（Mealy Mountains）的山景。教堂建筑一方面需要凸显出该场地在社区中的特殊地位，另一方面则需要使用当地材料省时省力地完成建造，其最终目的是创建一个能够响应社区并满足宗教活动需要的场所。

Our Lady of the Snows Church is located in the Innu community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, on banks of Lake Melville overlooking the Mealy Mountains.  The building had to celebrate and enhance its unique site within the community while at the same time be easily constructed by local tradespeople with locally available materials.  The interior space had to be adaptable to different sizes and types of gatherings.  The main objective was to create a structure that responded to its community as much as it responded to the requirements of religious practice.

▼教堂外观，exterior view ©Julian Parkinson

▼立面局部，partial view ©Julian Parkinson

教堂的设计包含了两个不同类型的集会空间。第一个用于举办大型的、频率较低的活动，如婚礼、葬礼和受洗仪式等；另一个用于定期举办教区的小规模集会——这些都是对社区有着重要意义的活动。社区希望为小型聚会创造一个单层的圆形空间，并将其整合到层级更为明显的传统教堂形式中。这一圆形空间被设置在通常圣坛所在的位置，使室内空间在各种场合和活动规模下都能呈现出一种温馨而有亲和力的氛围。建筑可以容纳的人数超过200人，但依然不妨碍其成为少数人进行私人聚会的理想场所。

▼模型、剖面图和平面图，model, section and plan ©Woodford Sheppard Architecture

The design of the Church includes two types of gathering spaces. The first is for large, less frequent events like weddings, funerals, and baptisms, all of which are hugely important to the Innu community. The second space is for small, regular gatherings of the parish. The community wished to have a non-hierarchical circular space for smaller gatherings incorporated into the more traditional hierarchical forms of a traditional church. The design locates this round gathering space where the altar would have normally been placed. The intention being that the interior space would feel warm and inviting no matter what the occasion or size of group.  While the building can house over 200 people it is also an ideal space for an intimate gathering of just a few people.

▼从后殿望向中殿，view to the nave from the apse ©Julian Parkinson