O caráter das capelas na produção arquitetônica brasileira entre 1985 e 2015

Abstract

Religious production is a recurrent and constant theme of architectural production. The buildings dedicated to the cult are protagonists when talking about Western architecture, are icons or references of historical periods. Generally of remarkable and majestic architecture, the religious temples are loaded with symbols, forms and concepts of the temporal space in which they were produced. In Brazil, however, this architectural production also became relevant to history, however, initially, it presented itself in smaller proportions. This small space dedicated to religious rites, here defined as "chapel", was present in the history of Brazil from the Portuguese colonization, a society mostly Catholic at the time. The chapels, however, presented themselves as annexes to the buildings of a country estate or a college. After five centuries, the permanence of these small religious buildings as annexes is still constant in architecture. Thus, guided by this context, the work presented consists of the study of the sacred space in chapels annexed to buildings in Brazil, through the graphic analysis and contextualization of five chapels designed and built between 1985 and 2015. The purpose is to reflect and discuss the architecture of these spaces, the territory in which they are inserted, the materials used, the formal project and the rescue of the liturgical elements, in order to identify the composition and character of the sacred space produced in the referred period. It is also important to observe the architectural characteristics of these spaces today in relation to the colonial era chapels and to identify which elements or sacred signs were kept or eliminated.