Open Platform for Architecture (OPA) has released designs for the latest in their series of cliffside buildings: Lux Aeterna / Holy Cross Chapel. Similar to their previous project, Casa Brutale, the chapel employs a style referred to by OPA as ?Transcendental Brutalism,? and has been embedded into the side of a cliff. The front profile of the building takes the shape of a cross, to be a seen as a spiritual beacon as it is approached from the water.

Courtesy of OPA Open Platform for Architecture

Open Platform for Architecture (OPA) has released designs for the latest in their series of cliffside buildings: Lux Aeterna / Holy Cross Chapel. Similar to their previous project, Casa Brutale, the chapel employs a style referred to by OPA as ?Transcendental Brutalism,? and has been embedded into the side of a cliff. The front profile of the building takes the shape of a cross, to be a seen as a spiritual beacon as it is approached from the water.
Courtesy of OPA Open Platform for Architecture

According to OPA, ?Purity of belief is celebrated in this minimalistic design devoid of earthly distractive elements. The chapel is the third building of the Terra Mater  trilogy of underground buildings. Proposed for the island of Serifos, it possesses a single cliff façade  that faces the Aegean sea, positioning the human vis a vis with the beauty and magnanimity of creation.?

Co...