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22.02.2024, Film
7 Chapels Press

22.02.2024, Film

7 Chapels

A film by architectural photographer Jens Weber and portrait photographer Orla Connolly about how sacred architecture embodies the human urge to give meaning and understand existence itself, or simply anything.
Long takes, combined with music by Wolfram Oettl, draw you into a surreal trance.

Our way chapel in Dillingen an der Donau is one of the chapels shown.

The film will be shown in various cities in Germany and Europe.

22.02.2024, Film

7 Chapels

2021, 7 Chapels, County Dillingen
Thomas Wechs Preis – Honorable Mention Award

2021, 7 Chapels, County Dillingen

Thomas Wechs Preis – Honorable Mention

The regional architecture prize is awarded every three years by the Association of German Architects BDA Augsburg-Schwaben. The Siegfried and Elfriede Denzel Foundation commissioned seven architects, in addition to our office Hans Engel, John Pawson, Wilhelm Huber, Frank Lattke, Alen Jasarevic and Christoph Mäckler, to design wooden chapels along newly created bike paths in the district of Dillingen. 

Our chapel fits into a small group of trees with a slender wooden tower, that is visible from afar. The chapel space, open to the landscape and formed of wooden slats, is bounded by a cross, which the wooden supporting structure draws into the opening. 

 

2021, 7 Chapels, County Dillingen

Thomas Wechs Preis – Honorable Mention

05.2021, Baumeister
Über Feld und Flur. Seven chapels Press

05.2021, Baumeister

Über Feld und Flur. Seven chapels

Baumeister ​B5/21
Issue Topic Seven chapels
Review by Jessica Mankel
Images by Eckhart Matthäus

05.2021, Baumeister

Über Feld und Flur. Seven chapels

26.03.–11.07.2021
7 Chapels Exhibition

26.03.–11.07.2021

7 Chapels

The special exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum St. Afra shows seven wooden chapels built between 2018 and 2020 along the bike paths in the Swabian Danube Valley. 
On the one hand, the chapels are to be a religious architectural symbol that further develops the tradition of the chapel building and, at the same time, invite cyclists to rest, to pause, to pray. The Seven Chapels Project was realized by the Siegfried and Elfriede Denzel Foundation.

26.03–11.07.2021
Tuesday–Satureday 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday 12 to 6 pm

Diözesanmuseum St. Afra
Kornhausgasse 3–5, 86152 Augsburg

26.03.–11.07.2021

7 Chapels