2009年5月9日，在克罗地亚的萨格勒布发生了一个一流的文化活动–肯尼斯-弗兰普顿为阿尔瓦罗-西扎的画展揭幕。
On 9 May 2009, a first-class cultural event took place in Zagreb, Croatia – Kenneth Frampton opened an exhibition of drawings by Álvaro Siza.
艺术馆不够大，无法容纳所有感兴趣的人–展出的图纸中，西扎为小教堂寻求最终的表达方式。12年后，小教堂终于为投资者完成了，在赫尔瓦茨科-扎戈尔耶（Hrvatsko Zagorje）的风景中，在一座城堡的公园里–巴洛克式的米利亚纳（Miljana）。
The Art Gallery was not large enough to accommodate all those who were interested – drawings were exhibited in which Siza sought the final expression for the chapel. Twelve years later, the chapel was finally executed for the investor, in a landscape of Hrvatsko Zagorje, within the park of a castle – the Baroque Miljana.
一个几乎完全封闭的巨石体，内衬石灰石板，被建在庄园最高处的斜坡上。这种与环境的亲近表明了小教堂的禁欲主义的内敛性。然而，建筑师在自然和人工之间设计了一个过渡区，作为一个露台–Piazzetta–可以看到扎戈尔耶丘陵地区和背景中的一排蓝色山脉。人们会越发感觉到向另一个世界的过渡–冥想和精神的世界。该建筑本身的特点是其材料的双重性：外部边界由天然切割的石头材料制成，内部则是混凝土浇铸的皮肤。在还原到最基本的方面，使混凝土可见的技术决定了内部的形象。唯一的 “装饰 “是外壳的模板和用于固定的凹槽。作者严格的纯洁性也许会让我们想起早期的基督教教堂建筑；就传统而言，过去是存在于现在之中的。显然，对于正是这样的极简主义设计的现代性甚至是实际性是毫无疑问的。
A monolithic, almost completely enclosed volume lined with limestone slabs, was built into the slope of the highest part of the estate. This closeness to the environment indicates the ascetic introversion of the chapel. However, the architect designed a transitional area between the natural and the artificial as a terrace – a piazzetta – with a view of the hilly Zagorje region and rows of bluish mountain ranges in the background. The more one will feel the transition to another world – the world of meditation and spirituality. The edifice itself is marked by the duality of its materiality: the outer borders made of natural, cut stone material and the inner skin of cast concrete. In terms of reduction to the most basic, the technology of making visible concrete determines the image of the interior. The only “decor” is the formwork of the shell and recesses for its fixing. The strict purity of the author’s approach might perhaps remind us of early Christian church buildings; in terms of tradition the past is immanent in the present. Clearly, there is no doubt about the modernity and even the actuality of exactly such minimalist design.
自然光只能通过祭坛后面一个非常低的水平放置的开口进入，所以人工光起到了主要作用。西萨的设计是为了让游客能够辨别方向，但最重要的是肯定要创造一个空间，让人觉得非常特别，退而求其次，当然也有刺激的气氛。在这个意义上，沃尔特-本雅明关于艺术是一种认知媒介的想法可以应用于米利亚纳的小教堂。
Natural light enters only through a very low horizontally placed opening behind the altar, so artificial light plays a major role. Siza designed it in such a way as to enable the visitor to orientate, but above all to definitely create a space and make a very special, backed away, certainly also stimulating atmosphere. In this sense, Walter Benjamin’s thoughts on art as a cognitive medium could be applied to the chapel in Miljana.
建筑师根据小教堂的整体理念设计了所有的教堂设备–精确而一致，没有任何多余的或令人喜欢的东西。最主要的当然是木制的十字架，它的形状让人联想到被钉死的基督，让我们想起著名的马可-德-卡纳维兹的圣玛丽亚教堂中的十字架，这是西扎最重要的早期作品之一。
The architect-designed all the church equipment in accordance with the whole idea of the chapel – precisely and consistently, without anything superfluous or likable. Dominant is certainly the wooden cross whose shape evokes an association with the crucified Christ, reminding us of the cross in the famous Church of Santa Maria in Marco de Canavezes, one of Sizaʼs most important earlier works.
和这个神圣的建筑一样，米利亚纳小教堂也有两个尺度–作为个人的人的尺度和世界的尺度。入口处旁边的破碎混凝土结构象征着人类的尺度–同时也是屋檐、壁龛和长椅。这使得8米高的空间有了一个受保护的入口，由于人造光的方向，这个空间看起来并不确定。阿尔瓦罗-西扎用他完全个人化的诗学，在米尔亚纳创造了一个神圣的空间，它既是个人的，又是普遍的。
As in this sacral building, there are also two scales in the Miljana chapel – the scale of man as the individual and the scale of the world. The broken concrete structure next to the entrance portal symbolizes the human scale – at the same time the eaves and the niche and the bench. This enables a protected entrance to the 8-meter-high space, which, thanks to the direction of artificial light, does not seem definitive. With his completely personal poetics, Álvaro Siza created a sacral space in Miljana that is as individual as it is universal.
Architects: Álvaro Siza Vieira
Area: 92 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Miljenko Bernfest, Damir Fabijanić
Manufacturers: Duravit, Saint-Gobain, Vola, Carvalho Baptista & C, Dorma, Roca, SOLFA
Main Contractor: KAMGRAD
Carpenter: Stolarija Horvat
Stonemason: Verica Ivković
Plumber: Kračun
Local Architect:Andrija Rusan
Project Leader:Clemente Menéres
Local Architect Team:Bruno Krunić
Project Manager:Šime Malec
Geometrician:ING-JET
Concrete Flooring:AS FLOOR
City:Miljana
Country:Croatia