Notre-Dame de la Pentecôte Church, Paris, France
Architects
Jean-François Milou, principal architect
Client
Notre Dame de la Pentecôte Church
Bidding mode
Competition
Area
1500sqm
Budget
5,000,000 EUR
Consultancy Service Scope
Conceptual Design, Detailed Design
Year
1994
The competition for the Notre Dame de la Pentecôte Church, held at the beginning of 1994, aimed to build a Catholic church in the major business centre of La Défense in Paris on an extremely tight site between three tower blocks and on a platform overhanging a motorway.
In this project an attempt was made to continue the use of decorative artworks that had already been tried out at Bougon, through the use of bronze flooring slabs and gilded frescos in the entrance area, in a very uncluttered architectural design (see notes to the Bougon project).
A pragmatic approach to the project led to the design of an “unfinished church”, in which the various artworks employed (bas reliefs, stained glass windows and video images) would gradually fill in the external façades of the building and the interior walls of the nave and aisles.
painting of the interior of the church by Haby Bonomo
detail of model
perspective painting by Haby Bonomo
section
facade study collage with brass chemical engraving
Competition