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project: Infinity Chapel
Mathematics research: interpolating a klein bottle or an infinity curve into an interior space for spiritual meditation.
The Infinity Chapel for the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist features a cubic sanctuary deformed by light. The new sanctuary is a place where the sacred geometries of squares, golden section rectangles, and ‘spheres of light’ will surround worshippers. Three curving walls - one from the south, one from the north, and one from the east - suggest the large spheres. The forms evoke the shape of the ‘Klein bottle’ or moebius strip, simple figures that suggest infinity by having no beginning and no end. In front of the sanctuary facing the street are the combined lobby and Christian Science Reading Room, designed as an open, relaxed space for study and conversation. Below this ground level are the Sunday school and boardroom with borrowed natural light entering from light monitors projecting through the first floor. The organic interior surfaces of the light monitors and the natural wood contours of benches and counters evoke the complexity of the Chapel space at the scale of detail. |
 
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