Czech Republic studio Atelier Štěpán has built a circular church in a housing estate in Brno that is topped with a panoramic, rainbow-hued window.
Dedicated to nurse Maria Restituta Kafka, who was born around 600 metres from where the building now stands, the Church of Beatified Restituta completes the Brno-Lesná housing estate that was designed by Czech architects František Zounek and Viktor Rudiš in the 1960s.
捷克工作室AtelierŠtěpán在布爾諾的一個住宅區內建造了一座圓形教堂，上面有一個全景的彩虹色窗戶。
專為護理瑪麗亞·雷斯蒂圖塔·卡夫卡（Maria Restituta Kafka）的母親而生，距建築物現在的位置約600米，Beatified Restituta教堂完成了由捷克建築師FrantišekZounek和ViktorRudiš於1960年代設計的布爾諾-勒斯納住宅區。
The circular church and its adjoining triangular tower were built alongside an existing spiritual centre designed by Zdeněk Bureš.
Atelier Štěpán designed the concrete church to be a place of contemplation away from the bustle of modern life.
“I wanted to make a church for the people of today,” said Atelier Štěpán co-founder Marek Štěpán. “The question of the perception of a church is a question of the contemporary perception of the world.”
圓形教堂及其毗連的三角塔是在由ZdeněkBureš設計的現有精神中心旁邊建造的。
AtelierŠtěpán將混凝土教堂設計為遠離現代生活喧囂的沉思之地。
AtelierŠtěpán聯合創始人MarekŠtěpán說：“我想為今天的人民建造一座教堂。” “對教會的看法是對當代世界的看法。”
The church’s walls have been left bare with the only decoration being the light that comes through an 80-metre-long, rainbow-coloured stained-glass window that wraps around the top of the concrete drum.
Light coming through these windows illuminates the concrete dome with various patterns depending on the time of day.
教堂的牆壁沒有任何裝飾，唯一的裝飾是光線，光線從80米長的彩虹彩色玻璃窗包裹著混凝土鼓的頂部。
根據一天中的不同時間，穿過這些窗戶的光線會以各種圖案照亮混凝土穹頂。
“In the baroque period, the church interior was completely covered with religious depictions,” said Štěpán. “It served as a kind of comic book because the visitors were not able to read, so the life of Jesus and of the saints and the stories of the Old Testament were depicted in the church in various forms.”
“Today, the situation is reversed,” he continued. “We live in the world full of easily accessible information, of visual and other sensations attacking us on every front, so the church should serve as a space for contemplation – a space stripped of superfluous visual, and other, sensations.”
Štěpán說：“在巴洛克時期，教堂內部完全被宗教描繪所覆蓋。” “這是一本漫畫書，因為訪客無法閱讀，所以教堂中以各種形式描繪了耶穌和聖徒的生活以及舊約的故事。”
他繼續說：“今天，情況發生了逆轉。” “我們生活在充滿容易獲取的信息，視覺和其他感覺的世界上，每一個方面都在襲擊我們，因此教堂應該充當沉思的空間–擺脫多餘的視覺和其他感覺的空間。”
Aside from a small stage with a triangular-shaped door leading into the sacristy and a series of small square windows, the main auditorium is only broken up by the entrance and a staircase that provides access to two balconies on the first floor.
These curved-concrete balconies provide seating for the choir and additional seating for worshipers.
除了一個小舞台，三角形的門通向聖餐室和一系列小方窗外，主禮堂只有入口處和一個樓梯才能打破，該樓梯可通往一樓的兩個陽台。
這些弧形混凝土陽台可為合唱團提供座位，並為崇拜者提供額外的座位。
Atelier Štěpán chose a circular form for the church as the shape stands as a religious symbol of heaven and eternity. According to the architect, the concrete dome above the ring of windows represents heaven above the city.
Within the auditorium, it is not possible to see the windows at the top of the building, as the architect wanted to create a sense of the unknown within the building.
Štěpán工作室為教堂選擇了圓形形式，因為該形狀是天堂和永恆的宗教象徵。 根據建築師的說法，窗戶環上方的混凝土圓頂代表了城市上方的天堂。
在禮堂內，無法看到建築物頂部的窗戶，因為建築師想在建築物內營造一種未知感。
“There surely are matters that transcend us and that are veiled because they lie on or beyond the very limits of our human perception,” said Štěpán.
“If there is any way to interpret them architectonically, I attempted that in the form of the Lesná church dome,” he continued.
“The light falls inside the church but the source cannot be seen. The windows are hidden behind a wide ledge. The source of the light is veiled. On both conscious and unconscious levels, the light in the church represents the existence of the world beyond our physical experience and the existence of God.”
Štěpán說：“肯定存在超越我們的事物，並且被掩蓋了，因為它們位於我們人類感知的極限之上或之外。”
他繼續說：“如果有什麼方法可以從建築學上解釋它們，我會嘗試以萊斯納教堂圓頂的形式進行。”
“光落在教堂內部，但看不到光源。窗戶被藏在寬闊的窗台後面。光源被遮蓋住了。在有意識和無意識的層面上，教堂中的光都代表了超越世界的存在。 我們的身體經驗和上帝的存在。”
Alongside the church, the concrete triangular bell tower also acts as a viewpoint across the city of Brno.
From the tower, a bridge connected to the church leads to a gallery above the main auditorium alongside the stained-glass windows.
沿著教堂，混凝土的三角形鐘樓還可以作為布爾諾市的一個景點。
從塔樓開始，連接教堂的橋樑通向主禮堂上方的畫廊，旁邊是彩色玻璃窗。
Brno-based Atelier Štěpán was founded in 1994 by Marek and Vanda Štěpán. The studio previously built a cylindrical church in the village of Sazovice, which was based on the circular Romanesque churches built in the 10th century.
位於布爾諾的AtelierŠtěpán工作室由Marek和VandaŠtěpán於1994年創立。 該工作室先前在Sazovice村建造了一座圓柱形教堂，該教堂以10世紀建造的圓形羅馬式教堂為基礎。
