CAZA developed Sanctuario de La Salle, an inclusive religious space within a wider campus concept for De La Salle University in Bian City.
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CAZA created Sanctuario de La Salle as a union of various volumes to create a delightfully new and surprising form departing from a church’s typical structure and spatial order. An assemblage of varied shapes provides a spatial experience more than the sum of its parts. It is similar to how humans unite to form a community united by faith and a joint mission.
Rory Gardiner
Sanctuario De La Salle’s Design Concept
The Santuario de La Salle comprises a succession of circular chambers. From the exterior, the structure appears amorphous and mysterious, with a smooth and loose appearance. An outside veneer of vertical slats breaks up the vast volume of the building, lending lightness and permeability to the elevational treatment. The exterior combines raw and untreated materials to emphasize the link with the surrounding natural setting. The materiality shifts to softwoods and metals as you enter the area. © Rory Gardiner
This rhythmic outer covering is a semi-outdoor zone that lets worshipers navigate from the busy academic atmosphere to peaceful, sacred regions. Circular rooms connect inside a permeable ambulatory area, offering nooks for liturgical functions with varying spatial limitations and formalities. Column placement and width are architectural representations of self-discovering bodies moving through sp...