Chapel for Saint Mary?s / Mark Cavagnero Associates
This intimate chapel for a religiously-oriented California high school operates as both liminal threshold and restorative retreat; perched on the corner, at the outer boundary of the physical campus, the rise of the sleekly articulated white concrete building is both icon and marker.Â
© Henrik Kam
Architects: Mark Cavagnero Associates
Location: Albany, California, United States
Lead Architects: Andy Lau, John Fung, Ellen Leuenberger
Area: 4400.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Henrik Kam
Client: Saint Mary?s College High School
© Henrik Kam
Text description provided by the architects. This intimate chapel for a religiously-oriented California high school operates as both liminal threshold and restorative retreat; perched on the corner, at the outer boundary of the physical campus, the rise of the sleekly articulated white concrete building is both icon and marker.Â
© Henrik Kam
Designed to serve the students, many of whom are low-income and attending St. Mary?s on scholarship, the chapel, while belonging to a Catholic school, was considered as a spiritual space, one that invites the challenges and difficulties of young adulthood to be considered and processed in a sacred, silent, and light-filled space. An honesty of materials? white concrete; glazing; Alabama limestone; and light American white oak? sets the tone for a space devoted to quiet for a community...
© Henrik Kam
Architects: Mark Cavagnero Associates
Location: Albany, California, United States
Lead Architects: Andy Lau, John Fung, Ellen Leuenberger
Area: 4400.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Henrik Kam
Client: Saint Mary?s College High School
© Henrik Kam
Text description provided by the architects. This intimate chapel for a religiously-oriented California high school operates as both liminal threshold and restorative retreat; perched on the corner, at the outer boundary of the physical campus, the rise of the sleekly articulated white concrete building is both icon and marker.Â
© Henrik Kam
Designed to serve the students, many of whom are low-income and attending St. Mary?s on scholarship, the chapel, while belonging to a Catholic school, was considered as a spiritual space, one that invites the challenges and difficulties of young adulthood to be considered and processed in a sacred, silent, and light-filled space. An honesty of materials? white concrete; glazing; Alabama limestone; and light American white oak? sets the tone for a space devoted to quiet for a community...
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