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Bagsvaerd Church
Copenhagen, Denmark · 1976
Photo · Photo by Bent Ryberg/Planet Foto
An interior precedent demonstrating how sculptural, undulating concrete vaults can be used to capture and diffuse top-light in a sacred space, balanced by warm timber furnishings.
- What we like about this project
- The contrast between the highly organic, fluid ceiling vaults and the strictly modular, orthogonal concrete block screen wall behind the altar.
Materials
- cast-in-place-concrete
- timber
- concrete-masonry-unit
- glazed-tile
- glass
Visual identifiers
- curved-concrete-vaults
- clerestory-skylight
- timber-pews
- perforated-screen-wall
- indirect-daylight
Style tags
- nordic-modernism
- expressive-concrete
- mid-century-modern
Visual tags
- sacred-space
- church
- sculptural-ceiling
- top-lighting
- nordic-modernism
- monolithic-concrete
- Geometry
- The ceiling is defined by soft, undulating, cloud-like concrete vaults that curve downward, contrasting with the rigid, orthogonal grid of the timber pews and the vertical concrete columns supporting the high clerestory windows.
- Structural guess
- In-situ cast concrete shell vaults supported by a concrete post-and-beam frame.
- Spatial scale
- A monumental, double-height church sanctuary scaled for a large congregation, balanced by human-scaled timber pews.
- Lighting
- Indirect, diffused daylight enters from high clerestory skylights, washing down the white curved concrete vaults; a horizontal band of warm incandescent bulb lighting runs along the perimeter beam.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, ethereal, and quiet, defined by the soft wash of white daylight over undulating concrete clouds.
- Environmental context
- An indoor sacred space, shielded from the exterior with controlled, top-lit openings.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from a lower, compressed scale under the timber-lined perimeter to a soaring, luminous sanctuary volume where light washes down the curved concrete surfaces.
- Composition rhythm
- The rhythmic repetition of vertical concrete columns and timber pews anchors the fluid, sweeping curves of the ceiling.
- Style reading
- Nordic Modernism with expressive structural expressionism
- Program
- Church sanctuary
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- cast-in-place-concrete, timber, concrete-masonry-unit, glazed-tile, glass
- Visual identifiers
- curved-concrete-vaults, clerestory-skylight, timber-pews, perforated-screen-wall, indirect-daylight
- Style tags
- nordic-modernism, expressive-concrete, mid-century-modern
- Visual tags
- sacred-space, church, sculptural-ceiling, top-lighting, nordic-modernism, monolithic-concrete
- Geometry
- The ceiling is defined by soft, undulating, cloud-like concrete vaults that curve downward, contrasting with the rigid, orthogonal grid of the timber pews and the vertical concrete columns supporting the high clerestory windows.
- Structural guess
- In-situ cast concrete shell vaults supported by a concrete post-and-beam frame.
- Spatial scale
- A monumental, double-height church sanctuary scaled for a large congregation, balanced by human-scaled timber pews.
- Lighting
- Indirect, diffused daylight enters from high clerestory skylights, washing down the white curved concrete vaults; a horizontal band of warm incandescent bulb lighting runs along the perimeter beam.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, ethereal, and quiet, defined by the soft wash of white daylight over undulating concrete clouds.
- Environmental context
- An indoor sacred space, shielded from the exterior with controlled, top-lit openings.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from a lower, compressed scale under the timber-lined perimeter to a soaring, luminous sanctuary volume where light washes down the curved concrete surfaces.
- Composition rhythm
- The rhythmic repetition of vertical concrete columns and timber pews anchors the fluid, sweeping curves of the ceiling.
- Style reading
- Nordic Modernism with expressive structural expressionism
- Program
- Church sanctuary
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture