Architects of portugese office Cerejeira Fontes executed a project of a chapel for a clergy school in the historical town of Braga in northern Portugal. The main idea was to connect the chapel with spaces of the St. Jacob’s centre. The volume of the chapel was integrated into the vestibule of the centre, whose neutral concrete walls allowed the new element to stand out. The mass of the chapel is made of wooden beams stacked onto each other, creating gaps that may also serve as storage compartments.
Transparency of the mass optically expands the interior of the chapel and allows bypassers to peer inside. Entrance to the chapel is found in one of its corners, where it opens up a complex shaped inner space. The wooden construction necks down with rising height and the top is left unsealed. This allows the visitors in the mezzanine above, to see into the chapel.
It is a great inspiration to see how a simple sequence of wood boards can be assembled at an angle to give the impression of a terraced mountain side!
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