Capilla en el Camino de Santiago

This project – actually just ideas – is, as you can see, a bit of fantasy thinking about a Competition for the National Architecture Prize, which tries (at least that's what we think) to encourage new ideas about this art. Since we already started from its non-realization, we have idealized, a little by thinking and a little by materializing this thought, about what a chapel on the traditional pilgrimage route should be today. We have imagined it more like a humiliation than a chapel; something that in itself does not interrupt or stop the pilgrim, but, on the contrary, helps him to continue forward along this spiritual path-path under the stars that leads to the Apostle. In short, architecture is based on a spatial geometric structure formed by linear metallic elements, edges of an ideal polyhedral mesh, which, based on limited points of a floor, places in space a multiple network of fixed points, that can serve as support and support – better we would say suspension or support – for the cover, conceived as a light surface folded in a zigzag. Independent of structure and roof, and without touching the latter (since neither would be useful for one nor the other), a stone wall five meters high is arranged which, partially delimiting the interior enclosure, is, in turn, a place of development of a symbolic theme or legend of the Apostle, according to sketches by the sculptor Jorge de Oteiza. As a location we have imagined a promontory or hill in the middle of a field of ears. The brilliant shape of the temple will emerge as if on the crest of a wave in the sea of ​​ears of the Castilian plateau. This brief explanation and the plans you see will guide you about our idea; But if it seems convenient, we will briefly explain some point that served as our foundation.