S:t Lars Kapell situationsmodell

Abstract

This site model allows viewers to appreciate the way the chapel was designed to blend in with its environment, as well as the use of copper to highlight the chapel’s features. Built on a hillside in Vantaa the competition for the project was open to all architects, and was arranged by professor of architecture and urban planning at the Helsinki University of Technology Raimo Nikkanen, to provide an extension of the existing mediaeval church. The building was constructed in the form of a long narrow rectangle, which allows for maximum light and views through the church. It has three entrances, for visitors and those attending services.The chapel links disparate elements in the surroundings without appearing as a distinct building mass, leaving the old mediaeval stone church with its patinated roof and bellcote to dominate the village milieu.