Oulu, Finlândia | capela Lilja | Vasa Oiva

[Dreamer]

Capela Lilja

arquitectura: Vasa Oiva
localização: Oulu, Finlândia
construção: 2005
área de construção: 70,00m²
fotografias: Jussi Tiainen






desenhos (planta, corte)

Este projecto foi o vencedor de um concurso para estudantes de arquitectura promovido pela firma “UPM” e pela universidade de Oulu, para uma feira imobiliária nesta cidade do norte da Finlândia. A capela servia como local de descanso e meditação por entre o rebuliço da feira.

A ausência de símbolos religiosos não é de todo um entrave a que a sua forma simples seja facilmente identificável como espaço de meditação.

"The chapel’s glass wall acts as background for outdoor events. As light flows through the pattern, it brings to mind a forest, the pace where Finns traditionally go to be in peace."

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‘Lilja’ meditative chapel made from UPM’s WISA wood products UPM has built a small wooden chapel for the Housing Fair to be held in the city of Oulu in northern Finland. The chapel, which is the winner of a design competition opened to students of architecture, offers visitors a place for peace and meditation in the busy exhibition area.

Lilja, made from UPM’s WISA wood products, is a temporary, transportable chapel for meditation purposes. The building has 70 m2 of floor space, including entrances and exits and the meditation room. The aim of the design was to have as much open space as possible. The building has no doors, the surfaces are very clear and simple, and explicit religious symbols have been avoided, but it is nevertheless easily identifiable as a sanctum.

The visitor is easily put in mind of a ship or bird – the name ‘Lilja’ (‘Lily’) itself refers to withering, change and evanescence. The design of the space aspires to create the sensation of a journey – the cycle of life. In any case, it offers the visitor a place to come to rest. The glass wall of the chapel room has a wooden motif made of plywood, symbolising growth and alluding to the forest, an important place of meditation for Finns. Concord between nature, ephemerality and the idea of transit have been central in the design. The chapel is illuminated by means of spot lights embedded in the floor, with the light sweeping the interior and accentuating the glass wall as the focus of meditation. The unison of light and wood, and the poetic nature of the living surface are clear elements of the expression of form.

Challenging structural design

The chapel, which is challenging in terms of structure and shape, was built using wooden prefabricated structural units. The project required some 400 construction drawings of the chapel and hours of design planning. Transportability and remountability added to the challenge of manufacturing the prefabricated units. By using wooden units it was possible to ensure high quality regardless of the weather conditions during construction, and easy dismantling and remounting of the chapel. The chapel is proof of the fact that the prefabricated unit construction method can even be applied to very complex buildings.

mais informações:
http://w3.upm-kymmene.com/upm/internet/cms/upmcms.nsf/$all/4248A27E0C6C69DFC22570CE0039584C?Open&qm=menu,0,0,0

[Sérgio Barbosa]

Interessante, sem ser genial... aliás, no que se refere à arquitectura moderna de cariz religioso dificilmente encontraremos tanta qualidade e qualidade como na Finlândia.