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A huge clay-tile roof envelops the remnants of a 12th-century monastery in this project by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, which is one of the nominees for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award.
The Copenhagen firm placed the Kannikegården building over the 1,000-year-old ruins in Ribe, Denmark, which lie to one side of the city’s square.
Both the walls and the roof are clad with clay tiles. Wooden pillars raise the gabled roof structure above the foundations of the Augustine Canon monastery.
The archaeological excavations also uncovered the remains of the country’s oldest christian cemetery from 800 AD – a period when the country was transitioning from the Viking to the Christian Ages. Glazing set in between the columns gives views into the space from the square.
“The project task was faced with a special challenge: ancient discoveries, telling us about Danish history over the past thousand years, have been found on the building site,” said the architects.
“The simple brick-clad volume hovers above the city floor to expose an open ground floor with a 1,000-year-old brick ruin integrated within,” they added. “The ruin, as well as the modern cladding, convey stories of cultural and historical heritage.”
The scale and pitch of the roof is based on the square’s architecture, and it tapers towards the south to ensure daylight still reaches the existing building it. There is also a planted courtyard here.
“The project draws several threads to the place of cultural and historical heritage, where the past meets the present,” said the architects.
“It is an interesting symbolic point that the brick ruin, by virtue of its original function as a refectory of the ancient monastery, is a distant ancestor of the new building.”
Asides from sheltering the archaeological excavations, the building also hosts functions for the church council and staff, as well as serving as an events space for talks, concerts and film screenings.
Offices are set on the floor elevated directly above the ruins, while an assembly hall is located in the apex of the roof. These are accessed via a stairwell with dark red balustrades and slatted timber walls.
Kannikegården is shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2017 alongside four other projects: a London housing scheme by British architect Alison Brooks; flats in Amsterdam by Dutch studios NL Architects and XVW Architectuur; a Warsaw museum by Polish firm BBGK Architekci and a memorial in Rivesaltes by French architect Rudy Ricciotti.
The winner of the €60,000 (approximately £51, 000) award will be announced in May 2017.
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A+Awards: this community centre and mosque in Tehran by Kalout Architecture Studio, which won a 2016 Architizer A+Award, is designed to look like linking hands.
The Imam Reza Cultural and Religious Complex is located in the cultural district of the Iranian capital, which has seen a recent boom in contemporary architecture thanks to the lifting of crippling economic sanctions across the country.
The building houses a mosque, an art gallery, a bookstore coffee shop, an amphitheatre and an IT centre under one roof. This roof is designed to look like interlocking fingers “as a symbol of unity and social cohesion”.
Kalout Architecture Studio organised the various functions into stone-clad wings around the central “dome” that arches over the shabestan – an underground space typically found in mosques, houses and schools in Iran.
“The main form of the shabestan, with the grandeur of a religious space, provides the opportunity of a unique experience to fulfil the immemorial ambition to connect with the creator and feel the symbolic form of the dome,” said the architects.
“Following this main form, the side wings of the building with the supplementary functions rise from and rest on the ground to create an innovative form visually.”
The dome is formed from handmade glass engraved with the many names of god, while bricks are laid to create an intricate repetitive pattern across the main walls.
The two materials are paired to symbolise “ascending movement from earth to light”.
Other elements borrowed from traditional Persian architecture include a sunken courtyard with a small pool, and a cedar statue that represents “constancy, life and freedom”.
The Imam Reza Cultural and Religious Complex won in the Religious Buildings and Memorials at the 2016 A+Awards.
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Project credits:
Architects in charge: Saeed Reza Boreiri, Samaneh Ghasempour
Project team: Nasim Alavi, Shima Mavedati, Navaz Foladzari, Masoud Roknipour, Anahita Basiri, Atefeh Ahoie, Ghazal Refalian, Reza Valajam, Bijan Vaziri, Mohammad Karimi, Farnosh Esmaili
Structure design: Behrang Baniadam
Mechanical design: Jafar Asadi
Electrical design: Mohammad Reza Hosseini
Manager supervision: Reza Jalali
Supervisor: Reza Karimi
Supervision team: Reza Jafari, Maryam Johari, Vadod Asadollahvash, Karim Tabari, Bahram Alvand, Shervin Atrsaiy, Milad Asgarian
Artwork team: Peiman Banishorka, Hossein Tonekaboni, Mohsen Daienabi, Reza Gharebaghi, Farid Bakhtiari
Adviser: Mehdi Hojat
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