{"id":1618,"date":"2019-01-10T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondazionefratesole.org\/?page_id=1618"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:05:00","slug":"europeo-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionefratesole.org\/en\/premio-tesi-di-laurea\/europeo-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"7th European edition - 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The day 16 June 2017<\/strong> met on Scientific Committee<\/strong> of Brother Sun Foundation<\/strong> for the evaluation of proposals received by the 7th Edition of the European Prize for Sacred Architecture<\/strong> admitted to trial.<\/p>\n

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The Jury, consisting of Luigi Leoni<\/strong>, Giorgio Della Longa<\/strong>, Esteban Fern\u00e1ndez Cobi\u00e1n<\/strong>, Caterina Parrello<\/strong>, Valerio Pennasso<\/strong> e Walter Zahner<\/strong> unanimously proposed to assign the Prize ex aequo to four projects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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These are very diverse contributions, which subtend research paths in areas that are also distant from each other and which imply responses that it would be inappropriate to compare directly. Projects that essentially express ways of understanding the project of the sacred in a plural manner. The four award-winning works also do not necessarily stand out above the others.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Irmina Niewczas<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hermitage. Prayer Enclave in Suchedni\u00f3w<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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It is a project for a hermitage inside a disused quarry in the heart of Poland. A hermitage designed for an itinerary of the spirit in which, in solitude, the hermit inhabits twelve cells on consecutive days. Cells with a common matrix but always different. An ambitious programme that subtends a difficult theme: is it possible to characterise the cells to express through architecture the Ten Commandments and the Commandment of love? The candidate, who recognises a dose of \"ambiguity\" in this research, works with a language of strong abstraction, without slipping into allegory, in the search for variations on the theme.<\/p>\n

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Places for community life are also proposed, including the chapel in the heart of the hermitage centre. Introverted, inscribed in the centre of the quarry's body of water, it manifests on the surface, as in the famous monolithic churches carved in stone in northern Ethiopia, the cross of its form.<\/p>\n

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As with the other buildings, the central sacred space is characterised by the harsh, rough concrete material in dialogue with the dominant red of the quarry and the light penetrating the excavated spaces. A severe language, at the limit of habitability, a language that presupposes an adherence, a choice of life; one seems to hear silence in this place carved out of the natural landscape.<\/p>\n

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It was a complex project, almost a tour de force, in which the architect's creative vein had the opportunity to decline in variations on the theme; a poetic journey that the jury appreciated.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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