Abstract

VILLALOBOS, Nieves Fernández  and  SANZ, Andrés Jiménez. The dissolution of the boundaries in the religious space. The Forest Chapel of Heikki and Kaija Siren. Estoa [online]. 2021, vol.10, n.19, pp.22-43. ISSN 1390-9274.  https://doi.org/10.18537/est.v010.n019.a02.

Finnish architects, Heikki and Kaija Siren, built a small chapel in 1957 on the Otaniemi Technology Campus, expressing Nordic linkage to the landscape, under the values of naturalistic rationalism. They created a space of intimacy, in the middle of nature, where the faithful could delve inside. The chapel that Erik Bryggman had previously built for the Turku Cemetery, with its side glass screen, served as an essential reference, and the Sirens, in the development of their project, gradually modified the opening to the landscape until they reached a full spatial sequence, which begins and ends in the forest. The research deepens into this masterpiece of modern post-war architecture and the relevance it has had in the creation of other contemporary and later liturgical spaces, until reaching contemporary Vatican chapels, where the religious space is also singularly linked to the place, dissolving its limits significantly.

Keywords : religious space; boundaries; Siren; Bryggman; Vatican Chapels.

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