Parish of Santa Ana and Hope
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Parish of Santa Ana and Hope

Miguel Fisac as Architects

The building is organized based on the new spatial concepts proposed by the Second Vatican Council, according to which the parishioners must surround the officiant to get a greater participation and the altar becomes a dynamic focus, the directionality of the Christian space is multiplied and the header is a more flexible background. These premises provide a radial form that converges in a wide apse with three concavities destined for the altar itself, for consecration and for communion. The acoustic improvement is achieved by dividing the access wall into three convex curves that promote sound dispersion . The overhead lighting on the apse hierarchizes the space with the ship in darkness and the light hatching on the altar.


The church emerges from the wide horizontal complex, which includes a parish center, housing and other dependencies, articulated by courtyards and a gallery that allow an organic, friendly and unitary development. The structure of concrete load-bearing walls and covers of tubular pieces , which the architect would use from this moment, denote a brutalism of lecorbusierana influence and determine and single out its powerful external image in the environment.

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