BEA. The traveling underwater chapel proposed by Mark Mills for American post-conciliar liturgy
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https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2013.3.0.5089Keywords:
counterculture, chapel, Mark Mills, mobile architecture, ecumenicalAbstract
In 1970 father Joseph Champlin writes: «the vast majority waits this new epoch in the life of our church». Mark Mills develops in 1971 the project BEA, a submarine chapel inspired in the form of a manta ray, that would travel all over the world becoming a«marine symbol consecrated to peace». The proposal, seen as a realistic project, follows the research of countercultural archi- tectures next to Fuller’s, in which the habitat of man and his relationship with nature and the community become essential elements of the project, defining a more cognitive and sensible space but symbolic or figurative.
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