Chapel on Pessegueiro Island

Team:  Andrii Koval, Alex Svetlichny, Zoreslava Pendeliuk
Location: Portugal, Pessegueiro Island
Year: 2019
Status: Competition

Pessegueiro Island is a place of exhaustive resource and at the same time, it is a place of a balance of material. 
The legacies of the island are man-made structures made with stone (the body of the island).


The quarry is an impressive and eye-catching object on the island. 
It is a geometrical structure that contrast the wild landscape background. 

It is a monument of the unfinished process, of destruction but it is also 
a resource for new constructions. 

The quarry is a part of our program - it is the threshold space. 
It is a massive but permeable structure, the space of movement, uncertainty and searching.
Narrow paths among massive stones let visitor feel the own scale,
the gradual isolation and disconnection with the outer context.
It creates an intimate atmosphere of solitude.

The quarry is a part of  program - it is the threshold space. 
It is a massive but permeable structure, the space of movement, uncertainty and searching.

Paths among massive stones let visitor feel the own scale,
the gradual isolation and disconnection with the outer context.
It creates an intimate atmosphere of solitude.
The chapel is a tunnel structure that starts in the quarry,
it extends one of the paths toward the ocean.
he walls and the ceiling are made with gabion that is filled with local stones. 

The density of the material changes gradually: it increases in the direction of the ocean 
due to the stone’s sizes reduction. It turns into an almost solid shell in its end.

The space in the tunnel’s end is far enough from an entrance space
to provide a sense of solitude for visitors.
An ocean horizon is a familiar but eternal phenomenon, it is calm it slowly changes. 
And by opening toward it we create a connection with far away views and at the same time, 
we isolate a visitor from the nearest and changeable context: waves under the cliff, 
objects that can be influenced by the weather elements.

Chapel on Pessegueiro Island
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