Low-cost chapel in Los Junquillos by Claudio Baladron Z. and Diego Grass P.

Today we’re delighted to present you with the project designed by Chilean architects Claudio Baladron Z. and Diego Grass P. for a new  little chapel in Los Junquillos, in the mountain region of Maule, South Chile. The project represent a simple but virtuous example of low res ex novo intervention in a difficult location. The same simple chosen materials allow to achieve a rarefied beauty mostly expressed by the pine wood in the interiors. The stern exterior reminds a depot, an industrial prefabricated. Despite the interiors keep the same essentiality and are definetely far from the european traditional church decorativism, the space releases a real sense of spirituality. The building polyfunctionality is not prejudicial to this warmth: village civil and spiritual activities co-exist in the same space, now public property of Los Junquillos.

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from the Architects:

There are oaks, wind and rain coming from the west. A dusty road is at the east.

Community soccer field is south; bamboo and empty beer cans all over the north.

Now there is also a wooden barn structure over a concrete platform,

with corrugated metal cladding in the outside and pine boards in the inside,

plus 100 chairs, lectern, altar, virgin figure and a cross.

Mass is once a month, community activities every evening. Both happen in the same space.

A new chapel for 100 people in the remote countryside of Southern Chile.

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via Yearbook