Storaket Architectural Studio in the Artsakh church project recalls traditional hierarchies of space, but plays with contrast through an unconventional exterior. The interior of the church follows a typical Armenian Orthodox plan; the exterior form, however, is abstract
Contemplative space to investigate the contrast between past and present, familiar and unfamiliar. Artsakh Church
In the church in Artsakh, Armenia, the traditional values of the monumental architecture of the place meet, in the architectural design, with a contemporary structure rooted in our time
The chapel's exterior aesthetic, deviating from the image the public is accustomed to, changes the way the traditional structure meets both earth and sky. Visitors are given time to process this contrast between an unfamiliar exterior and a familiar interior as they pass through a descending, partially subterranean entrance space to a body of water that lies directly outside the entrance to the nave
Overall, the Artsakh church is a contemplative space that investigates the relationship between past and present, familiar and unfamiliar, interior and exterior, and between the heaviness of stone and lightness, water and sky
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