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| Par-delà les nuages |
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| LANDSCALE |
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| HOMAGE |
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| GEODESIE |
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| UNICONE |
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| SAMPAN |
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| XING-JING |
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| FACEAFACE |
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| TERRAFORMING |
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| NAISSANCE D UN SOUVENIR |
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| NONLIEU |
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| PLACE |
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| LA VILLE |
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| MEDUSA |
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| RING RING RING |
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| ASYMETRIE |
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| MGM |
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| GEO1 |
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| PROSE |
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| HAPPYDAYS |
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| DOUBLEFACE |
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| CLIMAX |
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NAISSANCE D UN SOUVENIR
Building a funeral chapel
Location: Verbier (VS)/ Client: Municipality of Châble / In collaboration with Jean-Paul Chabbey and Philippe Vaudan/ Competition
Rites of passage
The whole place is treated as a vast religious and cultural space, singularly disposed on the slope of the site.
The chapel offers a new site of reference south of the church, supporting the cemetery wall and the continuity of the museum. It specifies and directs the spatial relationship between the ‘parochial space’ in the south and the main level of the church.
On the ‘roof’, a pool of water on a black background evokes the mirror of the soul and the reflection of the sky… the source of life. The chapel is intended to be a mark of spirituality, suggesting transcendence by the use of material and light, shadow and silence, without appealing to a specific religious symbol.
A sequence of three spaces in succession:
The canopy and the entryway, venue of the meeting and reception hall. A curtain of water filters the sunlight and reduces noise from outside.
The corridor of silence, a spatial threshold for introspection, generates a lively light, filtered by the pool.
The chapel hall, a space of contemplation and remembrance, irradiated by a dense and golden light
The light represents the ‘rights of passage’, and accompanies the movement between our earthly life and the hope of an afterlife.
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