Church of San Giovanni Battista, Mogno

San Giovanni Battista ( St. John the Baptist ) is a modern Roman Catholic church building in the small mountain village Mogno, community Lavizzara, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The church was designed by Mario Botta and built in the years 1992-1996.

Prehistory

Background of the building was along with numerous houses to venture by an avalanche in 1986. After a long period of planning and discussion, the Committee decided to rebuild, a flashy, forward-looking project the complete destruction of old baroque village church of Mogno and Plan of Lugano renowned architect Mario Botta realize. Since its completion, the church has attracted numerous visitors.

Architecture

Botta designed the church as an interplay of a variety of natural -like and spiritual symbolism. He gave her the form of a tower-like, sloped up in 45 - degree tilt oval with a circular glass roof. As building material he chose marble and gneiss in lagenweisem change and generated by a charming light-dark effect. The interior is rectangular in plan; the walls make the transition from the roof to the orthogonal circular floor in a gradual transition. The altar stands in front of a quasi -Byzantine arched, stepped through niche behind the sacristy is - because of the hillside location underground and invisible from the outside. The entrance on the opposite side outside under a small staircase-shaped aqueduct, inside hidden behind a pillar. The water staircase, through which the water flows away from the roof in the rain, puts in under the glass roof in an arcuate " Stairway to Heaven " continues. Two other niches on the narrow sides of the room set additional accents archaic in the postmodern context. Only a few rows of benches made ​​of light wood adjust the also designed in the light-dark change stone floor.

• Water stairs at the entrance
• View of the altar
• View of the glass roof from the interior