Angular white concrete walls against a pale sky

Lysning Chapel

Location: Silkeborg, Denmark
Type: Public
Client: Silkeborg Parish Council
Area: 640 m²
Status: In design, due 2027
Team: Ida Holm, Anders Holm

A cast-concrete chapel in a forest clearing, where daylight is the only ornament.

The chapel is approached through a narrow passage between two walls, which opens into a single tall room lit from a slot in the roof.

Everything is in-situ concrete, cast against rough boards so the grain of the timber stays in the walls. There are no windows at eye level: the forest is heard, not seen.

Narrow concrete passage lit from above — Approach passage

Tall concrete room with a glazed roof slot — Chapel interior study

White concrete wall with a thin stair cut into it — Gallery stair

Long, low timber house in front of a stand of tall pines

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