PROJETO PARA CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA IGREJA CATÓLICA CONTEMPORÂNEA

Abstract

This work consists of a project to build a contemporary Catholic Church, whose objectives are to design a sacred space supported in local community life, consistent with the ecclesiology and liturgy renewed by the Second Vatican Council, that is functional and significant, favoring through its configuration and distribution of key areas, both liturgical execution and the active participation of the faithful. It also aims to give due emphasis on the parts that make up the building-church in order to encourage the participation of the faithful, from the stimulation of the senses of sight, hearing and smell. How the Church should be the place where everything turns to Christ, then the whole structure of this project will also be an invitation to search for the transcendent, the sacred, the divine and the Christ himself. The site chosen for the building of this church was a land in the Belo Horizonte neighborhood I. To prepare this project the methodologies of action research, literature and documentary; and planning methodology for preparation of the draft was based from the projective analysis, combined with the results of the survey area, the needs of the program and the quantitative and qualitative research. The end result was a harmonious and functional architectural design, not only from an aesthetic point of view, but as a symbolic place full of meaning, memory, and visible sign sacrament because attended the liturgical norms and the surrounding community desires. Therefore, this Catholic religious temple will enable future goers are called to be, to form and compose the building of living stones, whose cornerstone is Christ.