trtl | INSTAGRAM | MAR 25

📍Church San Giovanni Battista. Mogno, Switzerland 🇨🇭⁠ ⁠ In 1986, an avalanche hit the tiny Swiss village of Mogno, flattening the hamlet’s seventeenth-century church. Architect, Mario Botta, who lived locally, was appointed to design Mogno’s new church and he created a striking, durable, rocky building for the village.⁠ ⁠ The church San Giovanni Battista rises up on the site of the small 17th-century homonymous chapel and, though it preserves the relatively modest dimensions, it introduces a new image and a new language. The language conveys a contemporary dimension, mediated by an archaic meaning thanks to the interplay of essential shapes: a rectangle inscribed within an external ellipse that changes into a circle at roof level. The thick stone wall and the light glass roof give the building the meaning of resistance against a possible future disaster.⁠ ⁠ 📷 by @designwanted⁠ ⁠ #trtltravel #churchsangiovannibattista #visitswitzerland