ARCH 172 [UP PARISH OF HOLY SACRIFICE]

UP PARISH OF HOLY SACRIFICE, 1955

ARCHITECT: LEANDRO LOCSIN

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: ALFREDO JUINIO

CONTRACTOR: DAVID CONSUNJI

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Original Structure approximately 55 meters in diameter

Fr. John Delaney’s (Diliman Catholic Chaplain in the 50’s) concept: “a simple but strong building that would be open to the light,
(Alcazaren, 2005)

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LOCSIN’S DESIGN CONCEPT , JUINIO’S
STRUCTURAL TRANSLATION: ARCH 172 [UP PARISH OF HOLY SACRIFICE]

• Locsin adapted a radical circular chapel

design originally intended as a gift for the
Don Bosco Fathers in Negros
• Juinio’s answer for a “dome that will float
above a thousand worshippers lightly (and
at the least cost)” is a thin shell 9” at the
base and diminishing to only three inches
at the top.

Compressive Forces from the thin-shell dome (roof) is first trans

(Alcarazen, 2005)

The “pillars” serves as the “bearing walls” that tran

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 erred (distributed) to the arching columns. (see: top picture) These forces are then “caught” b
mits the forces into the ground. (see: bottom picture) These same walls also served as the ca
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ELEVATION
Dominated by the concept of a saucer-like structure, the church’s “support system” is composed of pillars
and arching columns spaced evenly following a radial grid pattern.

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the secondary circular layer that functions as a “beam”.

nvass for Manansala and Kiukok’s “Stations of the Cross”.
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SECTION
The Structural Unit. The chapel can be read as regarded as “one volume”--- the structural translation was feasible
and helped in imposing the architectural expression of the building. The end product was a structure that looks
light and is “barrier-free”.

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