Une Chapelle

AI2 . September 2022

This academic project began with the study of an architect’s identity, materials, forms, and approach to architecture. I chose John De Maio. The objective was to conceive a chapel as he might, translating his architectural language into an original concept of my own.

Year: September 2022
Level: AI2
Discipline: Architecture
Setting: Lebanese hills, facing the valley

The chapel explores faith as a light in the midst of chaos. A fractured concrete envelope surrounds a perfect glass sphere, creating a contrast between imperfection and purity.

Set within the Lebanese hills and facing the valley, the sphere contains the prayer space, suspended on a translucent plane at its centre.

Beneath it, a sacred chamber holds water, creating a quiet dialogue between light, reflection, earth and sky.

Sheet of hand drawings for the chapel: two elevations, a plan, a section and two watercolour perspectives of the sphere inside its broken shell — Elevations, plan, section AA and watercolour views

These projects are more than what I make.
They are traces of how I see.

Thank you for taking the time to look,
and perhaps, to see a little of me within them.

Charcoal self-portrait of Celine Mahfouz: long dark hair, her chin resting on her hand, looking directly at the viewer