培养一个精神社区一直是圣玛丽慈善医院的核心使命。目前园区的第一座建筑是在1959年由一群Felician修女建立的，以服务于因汽车工业急剧增长而急需医疗保健的社区。从那时起，该地区的人口持续增长，在人口和精神方面变得更加多样化。为了反映这一点，这个项目的方案范围包括一个罗马天主教教堂、一个思考室和一个穆斯林祈祷室。
Fostering a spiritual community has always been at the heart of the mission of St Mary Mercy hospital. The first building of the current campus was established in 1959 by a group of Felician Sisters to serve a community in urgent need of healthcare as the auto industry grew exponentially. Since this time, the population of the region has continued to grow and become more demographically and spiritually diverse. Reflecting this, the programmatic scope of this project includes a Roman Catholic Chapel, a reflection room and a Muslim prayer room.
加建的位置是在最初的设计概念阶段确定的，之所以选择这个位置，是因为它在通往医院北面入口处的视觉上非常突出，并且允许新的小教堂在视觉上 “借用 “医院北面的现有十字架。我们对该项目的正式做法是探索砖的潜力，以实现平滑和定义，从而实现各种用途的统一，并给予一个精神中心的整体表达。
The location of the addition was determined during the initial conceptual phase of design and was selected because of its visual prominence from the approach to the north entrance of the hospital and to allow the new chapel to visually “borrow” an existing cross on the north façade of the hospital. Our formal approach to the project explores the potential for brick to achieve both smoothness and definition to achieve unity across a variety of uses and give an overall expression of a spiritual center.
为了达到这个目的，小教堂的形式从它与现有医院相接的地方开始低矮，然后上升，为小教堂提供一个更加垂直的宽敞空间，并传达出这个新增项目的重要性。礼拜堂的开孔与程序性的机会相匹配，包括一个高高的东窗，为每天早上6点的弥撒提供清晨的光线，一个南面的开口容纳了一个特殊的二色玻璃装置，将光谱的颜色反弹到空间中，还有一排西面的窗户，与未来阶段的治疗花园建立关系。
To accomplish this, the chapel’s form begins low where it meets the existing hospital and rises up to provide a more vertically generous space in the chapel and to convey the importance of this addition. The chapel’s apertures match orientations with programmatic opportunities including a high, east window to provide early morning light for the daily 6am mass, a southern opening that holds a special installation of dichroic glass that bounces spectral colors into the space, and a western row of windows that establish a relationship with a future phase healing garden.
二色玻璃窗的设计是为了通过研究其与太阳角度相关的位置，使两个分层的玻璃 “颜色 “的颜色范围最大化。三个主要的礼仪元素（帐幕、祭坛和安乐椅）与锥形砖角的几何形状相辅相成，并通过使用数字制造机器人雕刻（由Quarra Stone Company完成），从白云质石灰岩的实心块中雕刻出来。
The dichroic window was designed to maximize the color range possible from two layered glass “colors” by studying their placement related to sun angles. The three primary liturgical elements (tabernacle, altar and ambo) complement the geometries of the conical brick corner and are carved from through solid pieces of dolomitic limestone through the use of digital fabrication robotic carving (done by the Quarra Stone Company).
礼拜堂圆锥角的几何形状庆祝了会幕的位置，会幕是礼拜堂内最重要的礼仪元素。在小教堂内，天花板的几何形状的发展加强了与会幕的视觉联系，与空间的游行轴线形成对比，后者与实心石雕的祭坛保持一致。在外部，这个重要的角落被砖块的图案所强调。
The geometry of the conical corner of the chapel celebrates the position of the tabernacle, the most important liturgical element within the chapel. Within the chapel, the development of the ceiling geometry strengthens a visual connection with the tabernacle in contrast to the processional axis of the space which aligns with the solid stone carved altar. On the exterior, this important corner is accentuated by the patterning of the brick work.
砖块图案包括以顺时针方向旋转的砖石，从流水线图案到旋转图案，在绕过转角后又回到流水线图案。接下来的课程遵循同样的逻辑，逆时针旋转，从而在转角处建立一个 “编织 “图案。砖的颜色选择了铁锈色，以区别于现有的医院环境，并利用材料的反射特性，当光线反射到弯曲和旋转的外墙上时，显得很有活力。
The brick coursing involves rotating masonry in a clockwise orientation from a running bond pattern to a rotating pattern and back again to running bond after rounding the corner. The following course follows the same logic with a counter-clockwise rotation thereby establishing a “woven” pattern at the corner. Ironspot was selected for the brick color to distinguish the chapel from the existing hospital context and take advantage of the material’s reflective qualities which appear dynamic as light reflects off of the curving and rotating facade.
Architects: PLY+
Area : 3274 ft²
Year : 2018
Photographs :Adam Smith, Jeffrey Kilmer
Manufacturers : Endicott, FritsJurgens, Eastern Architectural Products, Goldray Glass, Hunter Douglas
Acoustics : Arcgeometer
MEP : Nederveld
Structural : SDI Structures
City：LIVONIA
Country：UNITED STATES