Herz Jesu cHurcH - Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten

Herz Jesu church
The Herz Jesu Church presents itself as an open, light and vivid building. The glass facade
envelops an inner shell of maple lamella. Due to the contrasting material properties of
these two cubes, which are set into one another, different colours and intensities of light
shine into the church. The arrangement of the vertical lamella gradually increases the brightness of light towards the altar. At the same time, the opaque glazing shields views into the
chancel from the outside. The Via Dolorosa with the Stations of the Cross is depicted in the
space between the inner lamella cube and the outer glass cube. The front of the building is
charaterised by large, intensive blue doors, which are opened on special occasions.
The theme of the contrast and the simultanity of stability and morphological conversion is
also resembled by the free-standing bell tower. It is covered by a metal weave which becomes increasingly denser towards the top.
By means of the counter-designed shapes of the shells the image of a metaphysical space
is evoked in the intersection of the altar area - this metaphysical space consists of a materialized, soft light in form of a translucent glass wall. As a contrast, the darker space in the
area of the organ gallery becomes a conceivable or tangible body. The glasses of the outer
shell are transparent there, the wooden corpus is visible from the outside, the casted shadow precise.
Looking at the glass shell from outside by means of the continuously increasing non-transparency in form of a stronger and stronger glazing it seems to receive a cristalline materiality. The trees placed parallel to the longitudinal face of the church are first of all reflected and
then depicted as shadows towards the end.
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art
Glas PortalAlexander Beleschenko, Glenmorgan, GB mit Franz Mayer‘sche
Hofkunstanstalt, Munich
Altar Wall
Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, Bad Wörishofen
Five Wounds
M+M, Munich
Via Dolorosa
Matthias Wähner, Munich
Concept and Graphics
Glass Print Side Nave Allmann Design, Munich
ground floor
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longitudinal section
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Herz Jesu church - ProJect data
Competition 1996
1. prize
Project phase
1996 - 2000
Location
Lachnerstraße 8, 80634 Munich, Germany
ClientKatholische Pfarrkirchenstiftung Herz Jesu, represented
by Erzbischöfliche Ordinariat Munich
Project Manager
Karin Hengher
Architects Realization
Susanne Rath, Annette Gall, Michael Frank
Architects Competition
Karin Hengher, Olga Ritter
Work stages1-5 according to HOAI
Total costs incl. taxes
14.3 Mio. €
Total gross area
1,450 m²
Total gross volume
16,750 m³
Landscape Design
realgruen Landschaftsarchitekten, Munich
Structural Engineer
Ingenieursgesellschaft mbH Hagl, Munich, Germany
FacadeIngenieurbüro für Fassadentechnik R+R Fuchs, Munich,
Germany
Building Services
HL Technik AG, Munich, Germany
AcousticsIngenieurgemeinschaft Beneke, Daberto + Partner, Munich,
Germany
Lighting Design
George Sexton Associates, Washington, USA
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