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Architecture for New Belief Systems

Faith - Result Story

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UNI published Results under Installations, Religious Building, Architecture on Mar 18, 2021

There has been a gradual increase in people’s knowledge about Science and Technology as well as other belief systems. Ironically, even though people have started disregarding religion, they don’t disregard visiting a worship place altogether.

Worship places are predominantly made religion-specific. Thus, there are no worship places that invite practicing all faiths.

Where do people go in search of peace/hope/solitude? What kind of places can resonate such feelings?

Consequently, if a Centre inclusive for every faith is to be made, what would such a place look like?

Propose an intervention - A Centre for Faith Agnostics. The proposed center should be open for all regardless of their faith.

The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows:

Vítor Leal Barros, Senior/Lead Architect, Vítor Leal Barros Architecture, Porto, Portugal

Rafiq Azam, Principal Architect, SHATOTTO architecture for green living, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jingsong Xie, Co-founder/Chief Architect, West-line Studio, China

Haobo Wei, Lead Architect/Founding Partner, West-line Studio, China

Jury

Some of the Best of competition projects are:

Winning Project: IN BETWEEN WALLS

By: dln sns

Competition board from the Project IN BETWEEN WALLS

Description: The project aims to create a hidden underground 'in between' space along the existing park. It creates a barrier with the highway with a solid wall while creating permeability in between the current historical remains and the proposed underground hidden space, which makes the 'in between' space a living section.

Runner - Up: Beijing's Interfaith Dialogue Centre

By: Alicja Kowalewska

Description: The concept of pavilions for spiritual development reflecting experiences on the path of life.

People’s Choice: MICROCOSMOS

By: Eda Buse Usta, Tuğçe Sevinç & Sumeyye Gungor

Description: Humankind regarded as the representation in miniature of the universe.

Editor’s Choice: ISOLATION MOMENTUM

By: Isidora Mejias & Anais Haddad

Description: Faith isn't always something fundamental for people, that’s why the project not only seeks to provide a space where users connect with their God but also to provide a special place where they can meditate and find themselves. We created different realities in the park where everyone can escape in their own way.

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Editor’s Choice: SHIELD

By: Laura Iiquelme & Fiama Castillo Núñez

Description: Shield creates spaces that seek the congregation of all people who need a place of meditation. It proposes two contrasting levels, the lower one is isolated from noise and protected from the city with the intention of disconnecting you. On the other hand, the upper level proposes a green roof that connects you with nature, opening your view towards the park.

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Editor’s Choice: Light and Water: A Sensory Experience

By: Davide Scaglia & Edoardo Avellino

Description: Connecting faith and lack of religious affiliation to a sensory experience that evokes feelings of tranquility and peacefulness through primal needs.

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Editor’s Choice: INTROVERSE

By: Aimi Berton, Mira Spasova, Gabriela Bacchi & Milena Raeva

Description: Located in a park in the heart of Beijing, the project creates a secluded space that protects users from the busy environment and prompts each individual to find their own expression of faith. Nature was used as a key element to contextualize the project while the spiral shape evokes the idea of a journey one makes towards the central space.

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Editor’s Choice: GIST

By: Izaak Pilch, Karolina Krasny & Piotr Winskowski

Description: Our proposal is a place of spirituality, retreat, and peace for every person, independently of religion or belief system. This is why we choose abstract, symmetric, and minimalistic design, expressing core ideas, common to everyone.

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Editor’s Choice: The Cocoon

By: Yuxin Xue, FANGLIANG DONG & 杰艺郑

Description: A center for faith agnostics.

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Editor’s Choice: Facing Nature

By: Lucy Bambers & Jay Patel

Description: A peaceful sanctuary within Beijing, filled with raw natural materials. Entering through a threshold, marking the transition from busy Beijing, to the peaceful sanctuary, where one deposits all material things, and then journey underground through the site, with circular courtyards framing trees and corridors leading to meditation pods.

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Editor’s Choice: Kathédra Pavilion

By: Sebastian Hicks & Diem Nguyen

Description: The English word Cathedral, meaning ‘Bishop’s Seat’, is derived from the actual throne of the bishop, the Cathedra. The Kathédra Pavilion implies a return to the original meaning. Where the chairs (or pews) would traditionally line up facing the Bishop’s throne, now they create the actual walls of the edifice.