Baha?i Temple Chile, House of Worship Santiago, Architecture, Architect, Location, Design, Image
Baha?i Temple, Santiago Building
Contemporary Chile Building, South America – design by Hariri Pontarini Architects
page updated Aug 20, 2016 ; 7 Dec 2010
Baha?i Temple Santiago
The Baha?i Temple for South America – Introduction
Design: Hariri Pontarini Architects
The Baha?i Temple for South America, designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, employs both translucent stone and innovative glass technology as the means of generating and manifesting both the physiological and spiritual delights of natural light embodied in architecture.
Set against the stirring background of the Andean mountain range, the Temple is designed as a crystallizing of light-as-expression, an evanescent structure of white alabaster and glass: a place of pure luminescence. During the day, the soft undulating alabaster and glass skin of the Temple forms its outer expression. At night, the image reverses; the entire volume becomes a warm totalized glow, with the inner form of the building visible through the glass.
Baha?i Temple – Project Description
The inner form of the Temple, suspended within its radiant exterior envelope, is a volume defined by finely articulated tracery of wood, offering a delicately ornamental inner surface, rich in texture, warm by nature, acoustically practical and responsive to the cultural givens of the area. The Temple?s nine enfolding wings, identical in form, a...