Church of Martin Luther by Coop Himmelb

Modernminimalis.com - Architecture. Although a role in the beginning began to prepare another architect, a native of the church entrusted to design, the architect Wolf D. Prix ​​(COOP HIMMELB (L) AU) was a good choice. The result is original and yet modest building, with the author's approach to openness in the ideological and formal level.

The church is located in the historic center of Hainburg, slightly sloping land on a corner plot in a traditional urban block installation. Entrance is located at the bottom, where the author has created a pleasant minestrone without visually distorting the historic building line. In this area, which bought the building for the church of the city, initially, to 17 century, the church of St. Martin and cemetery. The church burned down during the Turkish wars, the cemetery has been canceled, but at the top of the block there are still well preserved medieval glossary, inspiring his dynamic curvilinear roof. Context sacred functions at this point is therefore natural. It also confirmed the requirement of Monuments Board that the parcel perimeter line by the side of the street is maintained cemetery fence. The proposal is presented to simply reconstructed fragment  stone wall that you can not help but notice the white plaster walls of today's single-storey building.

The nearest neighborhood is small-town traditional two-storey development with narrow streets and obviously it was not easy to maintain volume context and also bring a sacred object of the spiritual dimension of the message. But as we have seen in the COOP HIMMELB (L) AU decades ago to handle roof country, this approach has worked well here. One-floor building, the front facade of expressive rugged, has deliberately amorphous dynamic roof modeled to receive light from above in all areas. The vertical dimension of the concept and then subtly confirms soft sculptural bell located in the foreland of the input. Standing in the corner, at the junction of the lines is vertical transcendent symbol of man's relationship to his Creator. Standing with her ... or under it, man is no longer in the current public space. By skillfully on a small area of ​​intersection divided by the area of ​​streets belonging temple.

Upon entering the building easy to navigate our longitudinal, top-lit hall, to which are connected from one side of the premises of local pastoral center: sacred space, social space (community hall), and the other party office (by the way with ten original nearly 100-year mola rs from former sacred space in a villa), kitchen, technical and social background. Composition axis led light, representing the path of human life, resulting transparent to the garden, where he planted apple believer. It is reminiscent of the initiator of construction, already deceased priest Hielscher. The tree in the garden, which is also a symbol of paradise tree, as well as referring to Luther's words: "If I knew that tomorrow I die today, I planted an apple tree."