Ylivieska church
Competition - Finland (2017)
Program: Church
Size: 2000m2
Architecture: João Caldas, Rita Breda, Pedro Rodrigues, Francisco Calheiros
We understood the new church of Ylivieska to have been carrying along the memory of an existing former church. This notion was essential for us when decisiding that the intervention should preserve the ruins of the older structure thus generating a new relation between the two. In this space inbetween a new churchyard should arise as a space for outdoor celebrations. It is precisely the nave of the old church that sets the axis of implantation and allows the framing of the Sankarihaudat enriching the reception for the community when entering the church.
We understood the new church of Ylivieska to have been carrying along the memory of an existing former church. This notion was essential for us when decisiding that the intervention should preserve the ruins of the older structure thus generating a new relation between the two. In this space inbetween a new churchyard should arise as a space for outdoor celebrations. It is precisely the nave of the old church that sets the axis of implantation and allows the framing of the Sankarihaudat enriching the reception for the community when entering the church.
Four programmatic fronts were outlined: the nave, the social area, the parish area and the entrance that distributes the entire program. These are organized according to two axes; the axis drawn by the lateral nave of the old church, and its perpendicular. The circuit baptistery - cemetery separates the social area of the nave. The perpendicular axis defines the path that leads us from the entrance to a small altar with visual connection to the exterior and to the sculpture veist Lakeuden liekki.
The main space is drawn in a circular plan embracing the community and keeping a view of the graveyard that the altar window frames.
The indication of a minimum lifetime of two hundred years defined decision making regarding materials, building systems as well as integration into the landscape. Recalling the old church, we noted its reddish coverings that could be seen from afar and stood out in the snow, as well as its wooden structure that gave the elevations a specific stereotomy. In order to perpetuate the collective memory we opted to inprint in the form of concrete with wood-board formwork and reddish pigment. In this way we propose a constructive system that is composed of an external wall cloth in pigmented concrete and a second interior wall cloth in gray / white polished concrete.
The bell tower in addition to marking the presence of the church allows you to look and indicate the direction of the old church and the new space of worship outside, drawing a second space of churchyard serving the nave and the cemetery.
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