Formal Manifesto for a new church

Your purifying journey evolve in a landscape of steps, allowing a three dimensional pilgrimage experience in a semi-open (referring to the city) semi-enclosed (Referring to the church) environment. Some of the paths in which the spiritual journey takes place, cut through the stepped landscape, pressing through the interstitial layers of the church. These paths connect at point and diverge at others creating enclosures or islands of different levels with the potential for various programs. This new Atrium space represents a place of purification and preparation, for that reason it is darker and narrower then the main church space, which helps to quieten and prepare the soul for an encounter with the deeper mysteries of the faith which are experienced in the nave. Your purifying pilgrimage ends where the illumination starts in as elevated nave-programmed ambulatorium where the choir is located. Illumination is followed by the Union with God in a vast luminous curved space of high ceiling.

Programmatic Manifesto for a new Church

Because the Atrium works as mediation between the city and the house of God it can incorporate both programmatic elements within it. From small charity shops, cafés, child day care (on the city border) choir practice space and storage, to spaces for after-liturgy gathering and other meetings, or spaces used for small liturgical acts such as week days mass, individual meditation in smaller chapels, paschal service, exorcism before baptism, confessions and church fairs or other church activities open to the general public. As such it would operate as missionary interface between the parish and the external modern world.