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UP PARISH OF HOLY SACRIFICE, 1955

ARCHITECT: LEANDRO LOCSIN

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: ALFREDO JUINIO

CONTRACTOR: DAVID CONSUNJI

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Original Structure approximately 55 meters in diameter Fr. John Delaney’s (Diliman Catholic Chaplain in the 50’s)

concept: “a simple but strong building that would be open to the light, air and space that UP had plenty of”

(Alcazaren, 2005)

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LOCSIN’S DESIGN CONCEPT , JUINIO’S STRUCTURAL TRANSLATION:

Locsin adapted a radical circular chapel design originally intended as a gift for the Don Bosco Fathers in Negros

Juinio’s answer for a “dome that will float above a thousand worshippers lightly (and at the least cost)” is a thin shell 9” at the base and diminishing to only three inches at the top.(Alcarazen, 2005)

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ELEVATION

Dominated by the concept of a saucer-like structure, the church’s “support system” is composed of pillars and arching columns spaced evenly following a radial grid pattern.

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Compressive Forces from the thin-shell dome (roof) is first transferred (distributed) to the

arching columns. (see: top picture) These forces are then “caught” by the secondary circular

layer that functions as a “beam”.

The “pillars” serves as the “bearing walls” that transmits the forces into the ground. (see:

bottom picture) These same walls also served as the canvass for Manansala and Kiukok’s

“Stations of the Cross”.

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SECTION

The Structural Unit. The chapel can be read as regarded as “one volume”--- the structural translation was feasible and helped in imposing the architectural expression of the building. The end product was a structure that looks light and is “barrier-free”.

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