Project Details
- Project Name
- Votive Chapel
- Architect
- Mario Filippetto Architect
- Client/Owner
- Comune di Casnate con Bernate
- Project Types
- Religious
- Project Scope
- Renovation/Remodel
- Year Completed
- 2015
- Shared by
- Ayda Ayoubi
- Team
- Mario Filippetto
- Consultants
- Pedelombarda
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The construction of a new Road creates an interference with a historical / religious preeminence: The existing Votive Chapel built at the end of the eighteenth century , in vote at Madonna , remains embedded in new roundabout , and in fact inaccessible. The administration takes action to resolve the interference, and identifies the possibility of building a new Votive Chapel in another place to allow the religious community to continue worshiping the religious building and maintaining all the established rituals; the old Chapel will remain inside the roundabout as a historical memory. The new location is a neighboring hill where have a memorial monument : this area have public vocation, nice landscape , ease use ; the magic of the place bring the administration to build them. Simple start idea: keep the proportions of the old Chapel and reverse the light and material relationship. In the new Chapel, the tallest frontal point (over the metal cross) the lowest point (roof gutter) has the same relative dimensions on the old ; the square plan of 3.00 meters side will have the same size but rotated by 45 ° to emphasize the perspective lines. Sloping cuts connecting the points create a skylight at the top and a front access opening. Material remains pure white to emphasize shapes the light and the sacrality of the building. Exterior area is arranged following the geometries of the building with stone benches , and a central white gravel catwalk leads directly to altar in white marble, on which is located the painting of Madonna (restored). Altar is a parallelepiped carved with celestial / astral symbolism from a local sculptor. To conclude the religious symbolism, holes were made on the lateral sides to represent the constellation of Cassiopeia (Madonna) and the Polar Star (God).