"Sacred architecture reflects a society's awareness of its relationship with the divine -and is thus a powerful expression of the human quest for spirituality"
Although, my columbarium design project is not to create the particular space for any religions, but for somehow the end of life places are always related to the them. The sacred architectures is the symbolic of people's faith. The sacred spaces are including the chapel, mosque, temple, crematorium, mausoleum, and etc. in many different religious. They are usually be the place for people to pray, worship, and any religious rituals. There are various types of sacred space depend on their purposes.
Lighting in sacred architecture is very important and impressive. As can be seen in many religious architecture, Architects are more concerning about natural lighting in this kind of architecture. Lighting usually be an image of impressive, peaceful and adorable.
Light Matters: Sacred space
Chapel in Villeaceron, Spain. Architect: Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office. Image © Hisao Suzuki
The use of light can lead to very diverse feelings: a ray of sunlight calls attention; glare overpowers; the nocturnal sky fascinates, while a dense dark forest arouses fear. Religions have made use of these experiences to convey the mystic aspects of their respective deities — accordingly, so too do their erected buildings.
After the break, an exploration of the different approaches for using light as a vehicle of symbolic meaning and spiritual experience in religious spaces.
Neviges Mariendom, Germany. Architect: Gottfried Böhm. Image © Yuri Palmin
Gottfried Böhm’s Mariendom in Neviges, Germany, encloses the contemplative visitor in a dark environment to focus his attention away from the material world and towards inner enlightenment. The daylight, which enters through small rooflights, only slightly highlights the altar. The concept deliberately plays with adaptation, where the eye slowly adjusts from a bright exterior to darker interior, giving the impression that the environment turns slightly brighter over several minutes.
Peter Zumthor further developed this concept of the dark shelter in the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Germany, where the cavity is made from a charred black wooden frame. As a counterpoint, small bottle glass portholes add points of light. Zumthor bases the sensual experience on an intense contrast between daylight and darkness that surprises the visitor. The pilgrims are led from a timid darkness to poetic twinkling stars.
Al-Irsyad Mosque, Indonesia. Architects: PT. Urbane Indonesia. Image © Emilio Photoimagination
The Al-Irsyad Mosque in Indonesia, designed by Urbane, welcomes believers with a generous reflecting pool in front of the open facade that reflects light in a very vivid form, offering the believer a transcendent entrance.
Church of Light, Japan. Architect: Tadao Ando. Image © Buou
In the Church of Light by Tadao Ando, the conventional pictorial depiction of the Christian cross, which would have normally received a light accent, has been substituted by an architectural solution made of pure light. This reduces the luminous surface in the front wall to two crossing lines, thereby intensifying the brightness contrast and placing worshippers in the luminous presence of their deity.
source: Archdaily.com
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