Side view of the Church
CHURCH IN ATLANTIS
Eladio Dieste
Atlantida.Uruguay. 1958
Also known as the Church of Christ the Worker, the architect expressed his experiments carried out with the brick sheet, but also strove to build an architectural language away from established codes around the technological possibilities of the developed. He designed a rectangular ship 30 meters long 16 wide, cover 19 light meters in their wider sectors. The wavy line of the cover is repeated and amplified in the surprising side walls, constructed as a series of conoides seven meters high.
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