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orthodox-spiritual-center-in-milan / Dmitri Lisii

Progettista capogruppo Dmitri Lisii
Location Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Corso di Porta Ticinese
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Relatore Giancarlo Floridi
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Università Politecnico di Milano
Facoltà Architecture-Built Environment-Interiors
Nazione Università Italia

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Milan is a city with a rich and ancient spiritual tradition. It occupies a special place in the history of Christianity. At the famous Milan Council in 313, Emperor Constantine announced a verdict on tolerance for Christianity, which put an end to the persecution of Christians and legalized freedom of religion in the Roman Empire – a common human right. This important role in the history of mankind was not limited to this, and later Milan was the epicenter of religious thought, spiritual life and arts. Its importance grew after the division of the two Christian traditions into Western and Eastern. Eastern rites in the ancient church developed very closely with each other, because there was always a relationship and communication between them. At the same time, the Western rites did not have a close connection with the Eastern rites and developed outside this great heritage of the Eastern Church. The Western Church of Milan was in a different position; in the second half of the fourth century, it became a link between the West and the East. His position as a liaison was mainly due to both the location of Milan and the personality of its bishop Ambrose. This determined the formation of a special spiritual and cultural tradition in Milan, which also expressed itself in architecture. The construction of San Lorenzo Maggiore is one of the brightest religious buildings of the Western Church, built as part of the school of Eastern Christianity. Being a divine artifact and probably built with the participation of St. Ambrose of Mediolan, it carries a worldview paradigm and a view of the order of the world order of the early Christian church. This closeness to New Testament events is so valued by representatives of Orthodox Christianity – as an expression of participation in the truth. This led to the choice of a site near the Basilica of San Lorenzo for the implementation of an Orthodox cultural and spiritual center.

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parish-church-in-lublin / Łukasz Wodyk

Progettista capogruppo Łukasz Wodyk
Location Lublin
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Relatore dr hab. inż. arch. Agnieszka Duniewicz, prof. PB
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Università Lublin University of Technology
Facoltà Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Nazione Università Poland

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Since the 1980s there has been a noticeable crisis of sacred architecture in Poland manifested by overscaled churches, an unclear architectural form, disharmony in the materials used and putting the economic factor above the human one. In the northern part of Lublin a parish church may be built in the near future. In terms of the location, is there another way to think about sacred architecture?
The crisis of sacred architecture may be understood as a crisis of relationships, so in the process of design the idea of man’s relationship with God, with others and with the natural environment was taken as a criterion.
The diploma project comprising a temple, a parish house and a vicarage was located on an attractive natural site in the northern part of the city, in the vicinity of residential housing development. The temple has a form of multiple units of successively receding levels and increases its height gradually to be human in scale. The arcades are reinterpretation of traditional forms in architecture of wooden churches in Poland and express architectonic gesture of care and welcome. Tent-shape roof is reinterpretation form of biblical Tent of Meeting as a place of relationship with God. Various prayer and meditation spaces have been designed to express the dynamism of relation. The architecture of the parish house and the vicarage has been formed into two ‘arms’, which embrace the existing forest.
The way in which buildings are situated in the space has made it possible to preserve much of the existing, spontaneously forming greenery, including the protected trees, while the introduction of the ‘open wall’ has made it possible to create intimate sacred spaces in the form of urban rooms. The relationship of unity between designed buildings was expressed in the materials used. Handmade facade bricks and coloured concrete form the common ‘garment’ of the architectural ensemble.

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searching-for-god-contemplative-complex-for-people-seeking-spiritual-answers / Kamil Lipski

Progettista capogruppo Kamil Lipski
Location Pisary, Poland
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Relatore Jan Kubec, PhD Eng.
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Università Silesian University of Technology
Facoltà Faculty of Architecture
Nazione Università Poland

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In the era of a spiritual crisis and universal changes in the social, cultural and technological spheres, the need to search for God becomes even more difficult to implement. Relevant questions that concern the spiritual realm remain unanswered or never asked. The spaces in which we live and dwell on a daily basis also interfere with our ability to undertake spiritual reflections, focusing on its visual and material qualities, while giving up any higher-order values.

The project does not try to answer bothering questions of a philosophical and spiritual nature, but to allow a search for it, by placing the user in the context of time, silence and solitude. Architecture in this sense plays the role of an intermediary between the real and supernatural world, operating with the basic values that have been present in architecture for hundreds of years – light, mass, void, structure and order. Nature and landscape also play an important role in the project, as elements that bring joy and comfort, and enter into a both tense and harmonious relationship with the architecture.

The entire complex consists of a central part, referring to the archetype of the monastery, and twelve oratorios. The arrangement of the central part refers to the historical form of a closed structure based on the “claustrum” archetype, which was to radically cut off the inside from the outside. A slight breaking and opening of the structure alludes to the symbolic invitation of every person undertaking spiritual struggles. The key element of the complex are twelve oratorios scattered in the landscape, which enter into a tense relationship with nature, enabling a spiritual and physical journey through the entire spectrum of spiritual sensations and impressions, based on the experiences and thoughts of St. John of the Cross.

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