新修道院的设计是通过一个长期的参与过程进行的，这使我们能够专注于一个复杂的功能方案，将与客户的生活方式有关的要求结合起来，客户是致力于祈祷、接待和兄弟生活的宗教人士，他们的需求来自于该地的气候和社会条件。修道院位于萨尔瓦多最危险和最脆弱的São Cristóvão地区。
The design of the new convent took place through a long-time participatory processwhich allowed us to focus on a complex functional program that combined the requests related to the lifestyle of the clients, religious dedicated to prayer, hospitality and to fraternal life, with the needs deriving from the climatic and social conditions of the site. The Convent is situated in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão, one of the most dangerous and fragile of Salvador.
伯大尼方济各会自2010年起就在那里，尽管是临时结构，2012年它为来自附近贫民窟的100多名儿童创建了一个幼儿园，作为一个更广泛的社会项目的一部分，在修道院建成后将实现一所学校。设计部分在意大利进行，部分在巴西进行，以充分了解客户的精神信仰和在这样一个特殊背景下创建一个修道院的意义。
The Franciscan Fraternity of Bethany is there since 2010, albeit in a temporary structure, and in 2012 it created a kindergarten for more than 100 children from the neighboring favelas, as part of a wider social project that after the completion of the convent will see the realization of a school. The design took place partly in Italy and partly in Brazil, to fully understand the spirituality of the client and the meaning of creating a convent in such a particular context.
在修道院的生活中，我们了解到围绕标志着一天的规则来组织空间是多么重要，这些规则是由个人祈祷和分享的时刻组成的，但同时，亚热带气候的极端条件又是如何影响生活方式的。由于该建筑没有机械空调系统，因此有必要提供遮阳和避雨的保护，但同时也要让空气在建筑之间流动。
Living the life of the convent we understood how important it was to organize the spaces around the rules that mark the day, rules made up of individual moments of prayer and moments of sharing, but as the same time how the often-extreme conditions of the subtropical climate, influence the lifestyle. Since the building would not have had mechanical air conditioning systems, it was necessary to offer protection from the sun and shelter from the rain but at the same time leave the air to flow between the buildings.
在平面上，我们重新解释了经典的内向型修道院类型，增加了回廊的数量，并使建筑物变薄，以使不断从东方吹来的风能够到达所有建筑物和开放区域。
Planimetrically, we reinterpreted the classical introverted conventual typologymultiplying the number of cloisters and thinning out the buildings to allow the wind, which constantly blows from the east, to reach all the buildings and open areas.
修道院的形态是围绕着五个绿色回廊进行的：在西边，面对着入口和主要的市政道路，是建筑群的公共部分，专门用于接待，南边是食堂，中间是教堂，北边是圣物室和接待大厅。这些建筑虽然是独立的、可识别的，但在理想和形式上被一个大的木制屋顶结合在一起，使它们在建筑上具有统一性。在小教堂前面，与大屋顶连成一体的是一个有顶的广场，这是一个聚会场所，白天可以遮挡阳光，并使教堂可以容纳500多人就座。在圣餐室和东北部的行政楼之间有一个图书馆，它是一个半透明的聚碳酸酯的体积，悬挂在四个Cumaru的木柱上，在晚上成为一个发光的灯笼，使其内容被感知。
The convent’s morphology is articulated around five green cloisters: at west, facing the access door and the main municipal road, there is the public part of the complex, dedicated to welcoming, with the refectory at south, the church in the middle and the sacristy and reception hall at north. These buildings, although autonomous and recognizable, are ideally and formally united by a large wooden roof which gives them architectural unity. In front of the chapel, in continuity with the large roof, there is a covered square, a meeting place that offers shelter from the sun during the day and allows the church to accommodate more than 500 seated people. Between the sacristy and the administration buildings to the north east stands the library, a translucent polycarbonate’s volume suspended on four cumaru’s wood pillars that at night becomes a luminous lantern that allows its contents to be perceived.
东南部的建筑是僧侣和修女的牢房，是唯一一个由预制混凝土结构组成的3层建筑，这在萨尔瓦多是非常普遍和可靠的技术。它被一个木制的外骨架所包围，这个外骨架容纳了分配走廊和木制天窗系统，这是避免墙壁过热和保证避开雨水所必需的。
To the south-east is the building that houses the cells of the monks and nuns, the only 3-floor building consisting of a precast concrete structure, a very widespread and reliable technology in Salvador. It’s surrounded by a wooden exoskeleton that houses the distribution gallery and systems of wooden brise-soleil necessary to avoid overheating of the walls and to guarantee shelter from rainwater.
所有建筑的屋顶总是被抬高，并与建筑围护结构分离，以使热空气排出，而在牢房和其他封闭区域，总是通过门窗上方的可调节木制顶篷系统保证交叉通风。由于使用当地劳动力和传统技术为房间降温而产生的工匠成分，使该项目具有强烈的建筑特征。使用光伏板发电、热水和回收雨水，使该修道院建筑群几乎完全实现了能源自给。
The roofs of all buildings are always raised and detached from the building envelope to allow hot air to escape, while cross ventilation is always guaranteed in the cells and other closed areas through adjustable brise soleil systems above doors and windows. The artisanal component, resulting from the use of local labour and traditional techniques for the cooling of the rooms, gives the project a strong architectural identity. The use of photovoltaic panels to produce electricity, hot water and the recovery of rainwater, make the convent complex almost completely energy self-sufficient.
Architects: Mixtura
Area : 5300 m²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Cesare Querci
Manufacturers : Bona, Anaùa – Madeira do Brasil, Arkos, Montana colors, Romilson Moreira
Lead Architects : Cesare Querci
Light Design : Mixtura + Nereo De Monte
Design Team : Cesare Querci, Maria Grazia Prencipe, Guido Di Croce,
Furniture Design : Mixtura
Early Stage Design : “Cesare Querci, Maria Grazia Prencipe, Guido Di Croce, Alessandro D’Onofrio, Fabio Speranza, Vittoria Grifone
Wood Engineering : Carpinteria Estruturas de Madeira
Concrete Engineering : Escon Estrutura e Consultoria LT
Steel Structures : ACOPLA Indústria, Comércio e Representações Ltda.
Country : Brazil