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Chapel: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Chapels represent a distinct architectural typology that combines spiritual function with design innovation. These projects explore how sacred spaces can integrate sustainable materials, geometric principles, and landscape context.

The community examines chapel design across scales and contexts, including eco-conscious structures in Ethiopia, light-focused sacred geometry in South Africa, restoration of historic chapels in Spain, and contemporary institutional commissions using mass timber and traditional craft techniques.

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Andres Felipe

253

Eco Chapel Ethiopia

"Water as a Source of Life"

Deniz and Gazihan

206

The "Cistern Chapel"

Water is the source of liveliness.

Clement and Hugo

134

Beyond the tree

The project is intended as an architectural interpretation of the tree. A break out of time and moments disconnected from the urban frenzy are established through the work of three interiorities. The tree becomes a project vector, a tool for designing space, sculpting architecture, orienting the believer and sequencing the path of a new chapel.

maria lucilla and 3 others

Eco Chapel - Leaf

The “Leaf” expresses a renewed conception of space, an incursion of nature into a strongly urbanized territory connected in actions and thoughts to nature. The design of a chapel and a forest in an eco perspective. A green avenue around which germinate buildings, evoking the forms of seeds and giving space to contemplation, prayer, leisure and laboratory.

GIUSEPPE and Stefano

An Urban Forest

Cities need to re-born and be alive, to make the world better again. Forest in town means that other forests can grow in town and each can make the place all living creatures can find a relationship. From Tewahedo tradition of the chapel in the forest we found the inspiration and a proof that this relationship is still possible and we should never forget.

cherine

The Eco-Chapel

The design of the Chapel in Ethiopia results of a study between space and light. The main idea is to create a passive experience with the landscape to the Chapel.

Rebecca

Protection Chapel

Site design strategy integrates nature, landscape design and urban design, giving strenght to legacy between River Bulbula and the new Chapel, Protection Chapel. Pedestrian way seemed to be river to come all to a new source: the Protection Chapel. A green synapsy, from this new City Spiritual Hub, designed refurbishes a greenway

Claudia

Eco Chapel in Ethiopia - Green Circle

THE MAIN IDEA OF THE PROJECT IS TO INCREASE THE AREA OF FORESTS IN ETHIOPIA AND TO CREATE A NEW SPACE AROUND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS. THE SPATIAL LAYOUT OF THE OBJECTS HAS BEEN DIRECTED THROUGH A DISTRICT WHERE THE CHAPEL IS THE CENTRAL PART. THE BUILDINGS AND PATHWAYS HAVE BEEN FULLY ADAPTED TO THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE.

Raghav and 2 others

Inside Out

A center of faith,forest and nature inside-out of the built, un-built and people.

Liza and 2 others

Chapel

The chapel captures the simplicity and beauty of the rocky architecture of the landscape and demonstrates the value of stone usage.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

Chapel in Addis Ababa: A Sunken Prayer Hall Where Stone Walls Also Repair the Landscape

An Honorable Mention at Eco-Chapel, this Ethiopian chapel sinks prayer into stone, drawing on Lalibela while walls, trees and rainwater heal the site.

Chapel

Sacred Space

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Neo Architects Folds a 63-Square-Meter Chapel Around Light, Water, and Sacred Geometry in Pretoria

On the Doxa Deo Campus in Brooklyn, Pretoria, two curved walls and a cantilevered roof create a sanctuary scaled to intimacy.

Chapel

Religious Building

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Pablo Millán Restores a Forgotten Chapel in Porcuna as a Pantheon of Light and Stone

A three-pronged intervention recovers sixty centuries of material history inside a ruined Andalusian hermitage through archaeology, restoration, and restra

Chapel

Religious Building

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Trahan Architects Wraps Louisiana's First CLT Structure in Handmade Italian Brick for Loyola's New Chapel

A circular sanctuary of translucent terra-cotta and Southern Yellow Pine rises on Loyola University's century-old New Orleans quad.

Chapel

Religious Building