Chapel on stage: a small chapel which astonishingly can be caused to be centre of worship for a crowd.The chapel for the Los Nogales Nogales (nōgä`lās), city (1990 pop. 19,489), Santa Cruz co., S Ariz. on the Mexican border with its adjacent city, Nogales (1990 pop. 105,873), Sonora, NW Mexico. There are copper, silver, and lead mines. school in Bogota, Colombia was conceived as an abstract prism, formed partly by site geometry. It is essentially a simple building, with just one main space, entered through a large door to the southeast. The route passes a shallow pool, walled to focus view on a line of trees, seen obliquely in passing as you come to the entrance to the nave. From here, the altar is at the other end, raised by a few steps on a platform, and highlighted by a light-chute. Other light enters the rather dark space through quite small windows in the timber northwest wall, and from various other devices, such as another light-chute celebrating the entrance and from slots in the concrete walls. To the right, a stair leads up to the choir gallery over the sacristy and priest's office. The interior is rather dark, relieved by splashes of light, and by colours: the pale ochre in-situ concrete, the natural warm wood of the north-west wall, and that of the elegant specially designed pews. What makes the chapel worth a commendation COMMENDATION. The act of recommending, praising. A merchant who merely commends goods he offers for sale, does not by that act warrant them, unless there is some fraud: simplex commendatio non obligat. is the way in which it is radically changed by throwing open the two halves of the timber wall as great doors. Suddenly, the congregation can grow from about 100 to some 2000. The additional members are accommodated on the public space outside which is pinned down by the thin tall concrete planes of the campanile campanile (kămpənē`lē, Ital. kämpänē`lā), Italian form of bell tower, constructed chiefly during the Middle Ages. . External members of the congregation look past the portico portico (pôr`tĭkō), roofed space using columns or posts, generally included between a wall and a row of columns or between two rows of columns. and the welcoming angled doors into the nave transformed into a sort of proscenium proscenium In a theatre, the frame or arch separating the stage from the auditorium, through which the action of a play is viewed. In ancient Greek theatres, the proskenion was an area in front of the skene that eventually functioned as the stage. stage. With the change of axis, priest and choir change places; he moves up to the gallery, while choir members cluster on the altar dias. The whole gesture is powerfully and symbolically dramatic, as if the chapel is welcoming the additional congregation with outstretched out·stretch tr.v. out·stretched, out·stretch·ing, out·stretch·es To stretch out; extend. outstretched Adjective arms. The jury was impressed by the little building's power of transformation, but refrained from giving it an award because the arrangement of daylight when the wall is shut seems rather arbitrary and glaring, not sufficiently focused on the altar. Yet the chapel is very well made, and is a thoughtful approach to the numinous nu·mi·nous adj. 1. Of or relating to a numen; supernatural. 2. Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence: a numinous place. 3. . RELATED ARTICLE: Architect Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos, Bogota Project team Daniel Bonilla, Alejandro Borrero, Claudia Monrroy, Jhony Duarte Photographs Jorge Gamboa |
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