infinity chapel
won buddhist training center
chapel of the light
project: Infinity Chapel
location: Greenwich Village, NY
client: Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist
size: 8,000 s.f.
date: Construction to begin April of 2006
cost: $2,600,000
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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. These forms evoke the shape of a ‘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. |
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