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Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners
Basílica Santa María del Mar,  | International Design Awards Winners

Basílica Santa María del Mar

Lead Designerssanzpont [arquitectura]
Prize(s)Honorable Mention
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Entry Description

The project is located in a new public sector of recreation in front of the Nichupte lagoon. The project must integrate, relate and complement the public space throughout a strong pedestrian connection with the new walkways, generating a plaza with green areas that invite the user to enter to the religious center.

The Sea as Identity.
Inspiration for the concept comes from the strength and softness of the Caribbean ocean waves and the white sand of its beach. The rhythm of the ocean and the sensation of peace and harmony serve as design principles to provide a unique identity with a strong relation to the region and the project site.

The Mantle as Inspiration.
The project is composed of a big public-religious (Catholic) space that can receive hundreds of people for mass inside a space of purity that radiates protection, harmony, softness and peace, all this simulating the protecting mantle of Santa Maria del Mar as maternal inspiration.

Architectural Concept: for a functional, bioclimatic, emblematic and urban project.
The virgin's mantle inspires the project's form as a maternal protection symbol. The ocean waves underline the roof's silhouette in search for rhythm, harmony and balance. The perfection and balance of marine life also serves as inspiration in the design line.

Religious architecture is the reflection and evidence of culture through time.

Bioclimatic Design: Minimizing Environmental Impact.
The project counts with bioclimatic strategies to achieve an adequate comfort using natural renewable energy; this includes natural cross ventilation, solar protection and thermal isolation. Because of its bioclimatic design oriented to energy savings it avoids the use of mechanical cooling equipment that would imply excessive consumption of energy without even taking into account if the basilica were at its maximum or minimum capacity; By these means the environmental impact and the carbon footprint are reduced

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