TT, WB, VD

Below are our preliminary overall project renderings.

Another conceptual scheme of how our site with address the landscape and buildings as a whole.

PRELIMINARY MEDICAL FACILITY

The places for reflection and remembrance

TT, VD, WB

A re-visitation of the collection of "the places for reflection and remembrance" for the podular aruba medical facility.  The graphic attempts to convey the individual inspirations and origins that guided the design of each.  Despite their differences, they are all united in their programatic existence: to help in personal reflection and/ or remembrance.  

Incorporating Landscape

Rough sketch of one of the schemes for how we will incorporate the landscape into our site while tying together our diverse archetypes.

-Brittany Wright

A place for reflection and remembrance

TT, VD, WB

It is common practice to adorn the casket of a dearly departed loved one with a colorful bouquet of flowers. It is this gesture that has inspired the following chapel/ place of reflection and remembrance.

A place for reflection and remembrance

TT, VD, WB

     “Light is symbolic of the Light of Christ or the light of knowledge and truth. It is the opposite of darkness. One may hear the saying "I have seen the light" meaning that one has a testimony of Christ and the truthfulness of the gospel.”

     Chapelopolis is an architectural response to the influence light plays in spirituality and spaces of sensitivity.  While it may be praised for its technological forwardness, it is intended to be a simple structure to address life’s more complicated issues of faith and inner peace.

A place for reflection and remembrance

TT, VD, WB

“The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines God as three divine persons or hypostases: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. The three persons are distinct yet coexist in unity, and are co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial. Put another way, the three persons of the Trinity are of one being. The Trinity is considered to be a mystery of Christian faith.”

    
      Implying the existence of a programmatic relationship between the Trinity and a physical chapel is expressed in this concept design.  The spaces, collectively, can serve a single purpose to satisfy a spiritual or emotionally charged event; or they can provide a venue for three separate simultaneous events.  All-in-all, they are present to possess a clear and concise function as well as a mysterious form.