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Ecumenical Temple
Project: Gabriela Gonçalves
Area: 337 m²
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Year: 2017
‘‘Ecumenical’ means ‘the whole world’, and the Ecumenical Temple is a space dedicated to everyone. A point of con uence between people, regardless of their beliefs.
The idea was to honor something we all have in common. irrespective of beliefs: nature. Nature is sovereign and perfect, and as a symbol of this is the golden ratio - an irrational algebraic real constant.
Applicable to almost everything in nature, from DNA molecules to galaxies – chosen as the architectural design party.
The temple consists of two circulations that converge to a center where there is a garden where mother nature is, a place of re ection and introspection, perfect for the practice of prayers and others. In addition, there is still a balcony, a space for contemplation, for practices of yoga, meditation, rest and others.
From the initial idea, volumetry gives verticality to the golden ratio drawn, and rises at the ends of the circulations. Your spiral shape gives movement and lightness to the project.
The interior space is simple and open. The inexistence of furniture is purposeful so that the observer can sit on the oor, or in the grass, valuing the connection with nature and its grandeur.
