Kiihtelysvaara Church / LUO Architects

The structure combines previous and new, reflecting the brand new kind of features on the previous web site. On one hand, the constructing continues the lengthy, prestigious custom of Finnish cross-type church buildings and is constructed of logs. Alternatively, the outer character and indoor areas are clearly novel, the log construction is constructed of unsettling laminated logs, and the constructing’s HVAC expertise is fashionable. The previous church had solely a 450-person church corridor with a lobby and a vestry. Within the new plan, the church corridor has 120 seats, whereas all the opposite areas are multifunctional. By a “beneath the identical roof” precept, all parish features from worshipping to society actions and cooking, happen inside the identical constructing.

Functionally, it is essential that the church corridor and the society and low areas serve the utilization each individually and when joined collectively. The structure attracts from custom, but is not a reproduction of the previous. For instance, viewing the surroundings hasn’t been part of the previous cross-type church structure, however within the new church, the churchyard and hill landscapes may be seen by means of massive, low-placed home windows.

Situated within the middle, the church corridor has a straight, ceremonial passage on the West-East axis. A skylight illuminates the corridor from above, and the distinctiveness of the apse is highlighted by sidelight from each side of the altar. The sacrality of the central half is highlighted by the peak of the roof that slopes all the way down to cowl the extra mundane features of the edges. A copper roof will patina fantastically.

The character of the indoor areas stems particularly from the excellent use of wooden, oblique and direct pure mild, and exquisite surroundings. The church verger saved the previous altar piece from the burning church, making it a central component within the new church as properly. The aesthetics of reuse can also be a visual a part of the church’s inside structure; the organ was moved from a chapel in Helsinki, the altarpiece, church textiles, and major corridor handles have been salvaged from the burnt church, and lots of the chairs have been reupholstered and reused from the previous parish corridor.