Our Lady of The Fields, Massachusetts Cathedral Building, American Architecture, Images
Our Lady of The Fields in Boston
A Cathedral for South Boston, USA – design by Stanislas Chaillou
Oct 29, 2017
Our Lady of The Fields Cathedral
Architecture: Stanislas Chaillou
Location: Boston, USA
Our Lady of The Fields

Stanislas Chaillou recently won the American Architecture Prize, in the student category. His project, ?Our Lady of the Fields?, is a conceptual schema of a cathedral for South Boston, inspired by Pope Francis? Encyclical ?On Care for Our Common Home??. Stanislas finds a new impulse in church?s design, while addressing the intertwined dimensions of ecology and faith.

Our Lady of The Fields, a cathedral for South Boston
The erection of our ?Lady of the Fields? in the park of Dorchester Heights (Dorchester, MA), aims at revitalizing the space while offering a strong center for the Catholic communal life, with three main objectives: (1) bring the believers? community in close proximity with Nature, by inviting the garden into the cathedral, (2) call the community of believers to a journey by using natural elements as symbols of the Christ?s Passion, (3) welcome the Other, beyond the community of believers, by using a roof garden.

The cathedral faces the south, the entrance stair is at the north. On the west side, two stairs bring people from the street up to the park on the roof, at ground level. This canopy is landscaped with trees and bushes simulating a dense...