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Path leading to the exit, looking west
Title:
Woodland Chapel
Alternate Title:
Skogskapellet
View:
Path leading to the exit, looking west
Creators:
Erik Gunnar Asplund (Swedish architect, 1885-1940)
Date:
1918-1920 (creation)
Style/Period:
Twentieth century
Location:
site: Stockholm, Stockholm (county), Sweden
Location Note:
Enskededalen district
GPS:
+59.275556+18.099444
Culture:
Swedish
Materials:
wood; stucco; wood shake roof
Work Types:
building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures)
Description:
Asplund’s early work vacillated between classicism and a National Romanticism influenced by his teacher Ragnar Östberg. A decisive success was the winning competition entry (1914-1915) for the Woodland Cemetery (grounds designed with his fellow student Sigurd Lewerentz). This project marked the beginning of each architect’s association with cemetery architecture. The Woodland Chapel is the cemetery’s first and smallest chapel. Asplund was inspired by the Danish Liselund estate on the island of Møn and created a simple wooden (covered with stucco) chapel surrounded by trees. The square exterior is capped with a rustic hipped roof on timber columns with classical domed space inside.
View Description:
A low concrete wall encircles the chapel area. Within the wall the woodland is dense and enclosing, and then it gradually opens out, gentling easing mourners from the ceremony back into their own lives.
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-AEG-WC-D2
MDID Identifier:
52530
Archivision Set:
Archivision Addition Module Six
Collection:
Archivision Module 6
Record created:
June 7, 2018
Last modified:
Nov. 1, 2018
Collection Memberships
Collection | Visible |
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Archivision Module 6 | yes |
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