Beautiful Buildings Around The World Part 2 - Bosjes Chapel

The glazed walls frame the mountains, vineyard and orchards.  Inside a simple, rectangular open plan building there is highly polished terazzo floor that reflect the light.  The undulating white ceiling reflects dancing shadows throughout the day.

The services and columns are hidden within the structure.  To allow for thermal movement the roof and the floor are separated by a service channel at the perimeter where the glass meets the floor.  Rainwater is discharged from the centre of the roof by a submersible pump with a sump through a pipe cast into the concrete - the outlet is hidden beneath the lowest part of the roof where it meets the reflection pool.

The Parabolic shape of the building was extremely complicated to make, all the formwork was purpose made - a series of prefabricated trusses with a bent plywood skin were designed., it took almost 5 months to make the formwork on site! 

The shell consists of  74 cubic metres of concrete and 8175 kg of high tensile steel reinforcement.  Four hidden concrete buttresses with a vertical load of almost 50 tonnes support the roof. 

and as site foreman  John Hartnick said :

PERI was the only formwork supplier that was man-enough to price this project. From the designing, 3-D formwork modeling, site support, technical know-how and overall service was excellent.

                                                  Photograph courtesy of PERI

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