Franciscan Village Church, Vucova - 1991 Designed for a small Slovak rural community, this church spotlights another side the architect's specific design approach: the economic expressiveness. It is a building of extreme purity, achieved through the most elementary means of controlling form. The specific expresion, remarkably simpleand dynamic at the same time, results from cutting a beautiful double-slopped covering structure with the converging planes of the walls. The wooden rafters and the light, natural and artificial, are the only ornaments of the building. While the symbolism of the formal austerity backs up to the Franciscan morals, one could also find additional local connotations: images of traditional churches existing in the region (vernacular, Romanesque and Baroque village churches), recollected in a subtle contemporary synthesis. |
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