Beams of light are sculpted by a thick atmosphere dense with the vapor of candles and spirals of perfumed incense.
Beams of light are sculpted by a thick atmosphere dense with the vapor of candles and spirals of perfumed incense. The metallic and faint jingle of silver incense burners, long and peaceful days marked by the tolling of bells and Gregorian melismata.
It has been over a millennium since the religious zeal animated Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Centuries of history have passed since the age of cathedrals. Many of them are ruins now but nevertheless do not constitute less magnificent and meaningful architectures. The gothic cathedral is one of the most powerful archetypes for contemporary humanity- especially when in ruins.
Whoever observes them cannot help but feeling a romantic and nostalgic sentiment, evoking a remote, passed and too often oblivious image of monasteries and cathedrals, which used to be places for art and innovation.
The ruins we admire today are in fact the product of artists, creative talents and visionaries called to God’s cause to use the best of human technology to celebrate the mystery, generate places where the cultural and artistic elite of the time could meet and express itself.
How did men-at-arms, farriers, peasants and blacksmiths feel looking at the huge stone and colored-glass architectures where men of God used to make medical remedies, meditate the Scriptures and act as message bearers of the knowledge of previous centuries?
Can ancient cathedrals reclaim their role at the heart of contemporary culture?
Can ancient cathedrals reclaim their role at the heart of contemporary culture?
This is the question on which Art Cathedral lays its foundation. This competition invites architects to rethink ancient sacred architectures as places where contemporary cultural innovation can be hosted again. Reflecting on the future of Kells Priory, architects will have the opportunity to describe sublime places, spaces of tradition and innovation, spaces of contrast between the ancient and the contemporary. Places that can inspire art, culture and debate to become centers of performative experimentations where to contribute – today- to write the thinking of tomorrow.
Reconsecrated to art- through architecture- ancient cathedrals will be the center of contemporary society again in order to host the initiative of artists that ultimately is and will be one of the main ways to investigate the unspoken, the unexpressed and- why not?- the divine.
Yac thanks all the architects who will take up this challenge.
Winners
First Prize
MatteoPolignano
Matteo Polignano
Second Prize
TREFOIL
Manuel Villalain Gonzalez, Diego López Quintana, Marco Fabri, Manuel Mateu Sanchis
Third Prize
Peik Shelton
Peik Shelton
Gold Mention
plannoll
Matteo Giammartini, Anton Boman, Matthew Wilson
Gold Mention
PAHAA
Pyaezone Aungsoe, Boon Hau Lim
Mention
Y.E.A.R.
Zhaoxuan Yang, Eva Jiang, Xinran Shen, Yanxi Fu
Mention
TEAM LPP
Ka Hong Lam, Kai Lin, Pin Ru Zhu
Mention
Alfonso Di Sabato
Alfonso Di Sabato
Mention
YE STUDIO
Chenye Hu
Mention
PROMB studio
Francisco Ornelas, João Brogueira, Bernardo Prisco, Ana Beatriz Ruivo, Henrique Moreira
Mention
GABOZAGO
Minhyeon Kang, Suyi Jeong, Jaewon Cho
Mention
BRG1993
RICCARDO PERSI, BIANCA PARADISO, giulia iannini
Mention
betón
Mauricio Bertorello, Francisco De la Rosa, Damian Hudson
Mention
LIMUHAN
Muhan Li
Mention
BB ARQUITECTOS
Andrea Baldo, Gino Brollo, Angelo Brollo
Finalist
ArcheDzik
Iga Czaja, Jeremi Ciechanowski, Hieu Trung Anh Phan
Finalist
Slavena
Slavena Todorova
Finalist
atelier NOT
Adrian WENBIN WEN, LIXI ZHU, Frank ZHEXUAN WU, Monica Huizhong Song
Finalist
Yauheniya
Yauheniya Karpenka
Finalist
Colective 3003
Ana Filipa dos Santos Martins, Alexander Gonçalves da Silva, Maria Luís Coelho Nogueira
Finalist
DreamTeam
Ekaterina Makhneva, Sergey Efremov, Kseniia Koroleva, Viktoriia Rudenko
Finalist
O.E.O.E
Jong Gwang Kim, Seong Hoo Song, Young sun Jee, Jee Woo Park, Hyo Ju Kim
Finalist
Francesca & Chiara
francesca Petta, Chiara Dorbolò
Finalist
Matooibos
Simon Johan Muller, ALBA MARCELA BRITEZ CORDOBA
Finalist
Spadoni
Tiziano Spadoni
Finalist
SVITarchitects
Hanna Kazantseva, Kyrylo Ruchka, Oleksandr Nenenko, Daria Chetveryk, Davyd Karibian, Dmytro Puhachenko
Finalist
Atelier MM
MICHALIS PANTAZIS, MARIOS TSIGONIAS
Finalist
CMS Architects
Cavad Qafarlı, Şule Karabıyıkoğlu, Metehan Gürsu
Finalist
Malakouti Aldea
Irene Aldea Alvarez, Amir Malakouti Jordan
Finalist
co.to
Samuel Andrejcak, Jakub Ceresnik, Lukas Bim
Finalist
GHS Architects
Tadeusz Skorupa, Deasy Hapsari, Yagmur Gur
Finalist
LA CAVA
Maria Beatrice Vanuzzo, Martina La Scala, Beniamin Giovanni Cassetta
Finalist
NOMADS
Yixuan Xie, Julia Kong, Hyun-ji Yang, Jahoon Kwon
Finalist
Cats&Dogs
Yibo Zhang, Yingrui Zhang, Yiming Xia, Jiayin Niu
Finalist
Shi&Wan
Zeyuan Shi, Weimin Wan
Finalist
Hall and Roberts Studio
Ruairi Roberts, Elizabeth Hall
Finalist
OUUTR
Rahaf Kahwaji, Mouayad Alyghshi
Finalist
PARABOLIC
Can Aksan, Giulio Gabrielli, Dimitrios Filippas
Finalist
Claq & Serendipia
Osyarin Ipsán García, Lilié Suárez Gómez, Angelo Yasiel Castillo Matos, Laimari De Quesada Borges
Finalist
GAMUT
Hyun Do Yoo, Jiwon Kang
Finalist
Team AA
Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Valentina De La Rosa, Jose Misael Saucedo Lopez
Finalist
cantdraw
Ho Chun Au-Yeung
Finalist
h_oval
Hugo Lavorel, Hugo Cabaret
Finalist
OR Architects
Rebwar Abubakir, Oliver Laszlo Bilak
Finalist
Paola Mauti
Paola Mauti