롱 북스 Long Books는 포르투갈의 건축 전문 출판사 Amag Publisher에서 발행하는 시리즈로 건축에서 새로운 패러다임을 확립하는 독특한 프로젝트들을 소개합니다. 현대적인 개념적 그래픽 언어로, 각 서적마다 1000권의 한정판으로 번호가 매겨져 있으며, 다양한 규모와 형식적 맥락에서 건축적 표현의 경계를 확장하는 작업을 기록하고 있습니다.

Nicholas Burns chapel and meditation room, is the second book from AMAG LONG COLLECTION. A very special project, revealed page after page, in a very sensitive way.

“One of the initial intents was that it wasn’t a religious building, as such. It started as a spiritual refuge; yet now it has a religious component to it.”

The project stands on a hill inside a thirty-hectare private estate, overlooking a denser urbanization down in the valley and the many green hills around it, air was crisps and frequently humid and mysterious mornings, fast-moving fog that enveloped rocks and trees. The resulting undulating light patterns swayed gently in the soft grass, and walking the rough-cut granite path up to the chapel awakened all your senses: “sense of time”, “sense of seasons” and “sense of place” as “the elemental things that are important for people to feel naturally deeper within themselves, rather than an aesthetic that is more the rational response to experience.”

Nicholas Burns, author of the project, is an Australian-born, Bali-based architect.

64pages

22.5×29cm

Softcover

English

May 2021

ISBN 9789895493852