{"id":72,"date":"2014-08-20T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/?p=72"},"modified":"2022-07-05T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:09:55","slug":"chapel-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Chapel of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Vaal Driehoek Technikon Chapel of Light: Vanderbijlpark South Africa 2006<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>SAIA MERIT AWARD 2004<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team:<\/strong> Chris Wilkinson, Morne Pienaar (project architect), Henri Comrie*<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client:<\/strong> Vaal University of Technology<\/p>\n<p>The widely published chapel was designed as a multi-denominational facility.\u00a0The site is located on the fringes of a highly disjointed, low-density campus. The design response was for the chapel to create its own spatial anchors and sense of enclosure. \u00a0It does this by extending walls into the landscape and establishing adjacent, open-to-sky walled courts that mediate between inside and out, in the African tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The section of the modest, affordable structure comprising a heavy brick base capped by a floating, virtually flat roof was influenced by a preceding, un-built project for a visitors centre at the Union Buildings (click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/union-buildings-visitor-centre\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0view)\u00a0in Pretoria. The use of white-rendered and top-lit internal wall surfaces and the spatial gravitas of thick, u-shaped external walls are influenced by House Comrie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urba.co.za\/house-comrie\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0to view)\u00a0which was in turn influenced by Louis Kahn&#8217;s Escherik House in Philadelphia and by Carlo Scarpa&#8217;s top lit Canova Plastercast Gallery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*Note: This project precedes the establishment of URBA and was completed within the practice Comrie Wilkinson Architects and Urban Designers. Published here with the consent of Chris Wilkinson.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaal Driehoek Technikon Chapel of Light: Vanderbijlpark South Africa 2006 SAIA MERIT AWARD 2004 &nbsp; Team: Chris Wilkinson, Morne Pienaar (project architect), Henri Comrie* Client: Vaal University of Technology The widely published chapel was designed as a multi-denominational facility.\u00a0The site is located on the fringes of a highly disjointed, low-density campus. 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