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Zumthor chapel is in a field of its own


This month sees the long-awaited completion of the Peter Zumthor-designed Bruder Klaus field chapel.

Sited on farmland outside the German village of Wachendorf, the chapel is dedicated to a 15th century farmer and mystic who is being considered as a candidate for canonisation.

The 12m-high structure was built by local farmers using a technique the architect terms “rammed concrete”. A wigwam-like structure of tree trunks was erected, with the walls formed around it. Every day for 24 days the farmers poured 50cm of concrete. The logs were then burnt out, leaving a charred and richly textured internal finish.

An oculus lets in light and rain at the point where the tree trunks converged and further light is admitted through the unfilled holes left by the shuttering ties. While the interior remains extraordinarily dark, the available light reflects off a floor of poured lead.

Zumthor supervised work on the project while construction progressed on his design for a gallery in nearby Cologne, which is due to open in September.

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Fonte: BdOnline.co.uk
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finalmente está terminada :) Esta obra é absolutamente fantastica! Então o interior.... nem se fala! Todo o edifício foi construído por cima de uma estrutura de troncos de madeira que moldaram a forma do interior o quais foram posteriormente queimados deixando ficar as suas texturas e marcas no betão que ficou negro no interior.

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dúvido que haja fotos publicadas do interior até porque ainda não está acabada. Eu via-as numa conferencia do zumthor o ano passado mas ainda tinha os troncos de madeira. Mas também mostrou fotos das experiências que fizeram queimando os troncos e é fantastico

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finalmente está terminada :) Esta obra é absolutamente fantastica! Então o interior.... nem se fala!

Todo o edifício foi construído por cima de uma estrutura de troncos de madeira que moldaram a forma do interior o quais foram posteriormente queimados deixando ficar as suas texturas e marcas no betão que ficou negro no interior.



onde obtive esssa informação? gostava de ler o artigo de for o caso
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Lembro-me que já vi algumas fotos do interior numa revista mas não me lembro em qual... Vou tentar procurar e se entretanto encontrar venho aqui por. Esta parece-me ser uma daquelas obras onde as fotos apenas reflectem uma ínfima parte das sensações que o espaço deve despertar em nós...

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Mais um artigo sobre este projecto:

Peter Zumthor : Bruder Klaus field chapel


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Well, architectural ninja extraordinaire Peter Zumthor has done it again - creating a masterpiece of simplicity and elegance in the Bruder Klaus field chapel [completed last month].

Constructed by local farmers using a technique Zumthor calls ‘rammed concrete’, the chapel’s form was created by erecting a structure of converging tree trunks, with an oculus at the top. 12 meter tall walls were then formed around this tree structure - by the farmers pouring 50cm of concrete every day for 24 days [which gave the the chapel its striations]. When the last of the concrete was finished curing, the tree trunks within the structure were burnt out - creating the INCREDIBLE interior shown below.

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And hey, who knows - maybe someone will shoot a hiphop video in this project too…
:images from the Thomas Mayer archive, project via architechnophilia:


Link:
http://architecture.myninjaplease.com/?p=1423

Não é incrível tudo o que pode caber dentro de um lápis?...

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A Saint and an Architect


The votive chapel dedicated to Saint Niklaus von Flüe rises from the flat farmland of the Eifel region in western Germany.

Two Swiss (a saint called Bruder Klaus and the architect Peter Zumthor) and a German farmer (the project’s commissioner) converge in the construction of a universal piece of architecture for meditation. Design by Peter Zumthor. Text by Stefano Casciani. Photos by Pietro Savorelli. Peter Zumthor is sitting at 550 metres above sea level in the quiet of his stube (the most beautiful one I’ve even seen) as rain pours down on Haldenstein towards the end of June. There is no truth to the legend of him living the life of a stylite on top of a Swiss peak as he emits sensual oracles of stone and cement that define the condition of architecture. Between his office and his home/office, he smiles, listens, plays music and receives friends. He is preparing for projects and buildings that are bigger (if not more important) than the concentrated, distilled pieces of textural architecture he has produced over the extended amounts of time it takes for work to become art.


A plan sketch by Zumthor


Entrance

The excuse for our meeting is the votive chapel dedicated to Saint Niklaus von Flüe (better known as Bruder Klaus) that he recently finished in Mechernich, Germany. The building is an ex-voto project commissioned by a farmer who is still alive many years after being diagnosed with heart disease. Marcel Duchamp said that plumbing is the only difference between sculpture and architecture, and in this tower/chapel plumbing is just about absent. The top of the tower is open, so it rains inside. After collecting on the floor a bit, the water slowly, naturally flows away – another reason to call it a sculpture. A very large sculpture that you can enter to pray or simply meditate on your existence, or on that of Bruder Klaus – aka Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of Switzerland. He was a peasant and a soldier who fought as an officer in the victorious wars of the Confederates against the counts of Habsburg around 600 years ago. He got married and had ten children, only to be persuaded by a priest named Heimo am Grund (which in German and Schwiizerduutsch refers to “home” and “ground”) to go into solitary retreat. After requesting and obtaining permission from his wife Dorotea, Bruder Klaus went off to live, and die, in a ravine, in a crevasse. The only Swiss crevasse I remember seeing is the Viamala Schlucht. Touristy perhaps, but in addition to its terrifying name it inspires fear for the fact that the bottom cannot be seen from above. It scares you to death, like the unknown, like what is to come but has not yet been revealed. Yet Zumthor did not think of these things in this project.


The 112 tree trunks that were used for the wigwam-like structure were taken from a wood belonging to the client. The trunks were then positioned in a cone shape, leaving an oculus at the top. Concrete was poured onto the wooden structure at the rate of one level per day, making 24 layers for a total height of 12 metres. At the end, the wood formwork was burnt out.


Rain falls inside the Chapel through the opening in the roof and collects in a sunken basin.

“After we built the Chapel, a few Swiss people came to me and said, ‘Of course this dark emptiness with only a few strips of light comes from the fact that Bruder Klaus’s life ended in a cell dug into the rock!’ And I said, ‘No, that’s not the reason.’ And they said, ‘Oh, well then it’s like a tower in reference to Bruder Klaus’s career as a soldier!’ And I said, ‘No, that’s not why, I wasn’t thinking of that.’ Rather I was thinking that it would be important for the Chapel to rise up vertically in order to stand out from afar against the open, level fields with their few undulations. It needed to mark out its territory.” “And what about this circular plan inside, and the cusp-shaped exterior? Doesn’t that have to do with the wheel of Saint Nicholas, the symbol he meditated upon daily?” “No, it’s not related to that”.



Ground floor plan

Zumthor smiles. Of course it happens that an author writes, paints or builds things that he doesn’t know about, hasn’t seen or heard of, but that are still worth one, three or ten different interpretations. But not because he spent days and weeks studying symbols and symbolism. It makes it better, more interesting, unless you’re not prepared to believe in premonitions, visions, and the poet as a prophet. The only vision that Zumthor believes in is that of architecture. The only language his buildings speak is that of their construction and materials. The hours of the day and the sleepless nights of Bruder Klaus have nothing to do with the 24 visible layers of cement that were applied and compressed by hand on top of a structure made of branches and treetrunks that would later be burnt, leaving its dark mark and intense odour of charcoal inside forever. The layers of cement are 24 because that’s the number of days it took the commissioner and his helpers to make them.


Cross Section


Long Section

And then: what “expert” would not see Gaudí in this rugged vertical appearance, in the convergence of its walls way up high, in the small marks of light in its cement? Yet Zumthor is no mystic, he’s not like his Catalan colleague who some would like to see canonised, he’s not like Bruder Klaus. He laughs when I ask if it bothers him that people consider him to be a mystic. “Those are just things they’d like to write in the press.” Even so, he did not want to be paid for this project. Even so, his Kolumba Museum in Cologne is about to be inaugurated: a cement castle for contemporary art built on top of religious ruins. Even so, Norman Foster wants him to build the church for the Santa Giulia development outside Milan. Zumthor smiles. He, the layman saint of absolute architecture.

Link:
domus magazine online

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