架构师提供的文本描述。这是梵蒂冈首次出席威尼斯建筑双年展。由FrancescoDal Co策划的“展馆”由十个临时教堂组成，每个教堂都由不同的建筑师设计。福斯特合伙公司设计了一个小教堂，位于威尼斯人岛圣乔治马吉奥尔一端的一个树木茂密的地区。礼拜堂的设计理念的出发点是在景观中设置三个象征性的十字架，上面覆盖着一个帐篷状的薄膜。随着设计的发展，十字架变成了拉索和桅杆的张紧结构，而膜则发展成一个附在结构上的木制格子。

Text description provided by the architects. This is the first time the Vatican City has been represented at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The ‘pavilion’, curated by Francesco Dal Co, takes the form of ten temporary chapels, each designed by a different architect. Foster + Partners has designed one of the chapels located in a wooded area at one end of the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore. The starting point for the chapel’s design concept was to take three symbolic crosses set in the landscape, draped with a tent-like membrane. As the design evolved, the crosses became a tensegrity structure of cables and masts, whilst the membrane developed into a wooden latticework attached to the structure.

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福斯特合伙人的创始人兼执行主席诺曼·福斯特说：“这个项目是从选址开始的。在参观圣乔治·马吉奥尔(San Giorgio Maggiore)的时候，我发现了一个绿色的空间，那里有两棵成熟的树木，美丽地构成了环礁湖的景色。它就像大花园里的一片小绿洲，非常适合沉思。我们的目标是创造一个小空间，散布着斑驳的阴影，摆脱路人的正常生活-而是把注意力集中在水和天空之外-一个避难所“。

Norman Foster, Founder, and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners said: “The project started with the selection of the site. On a visit to San Giorgio Maggiore, close to Palladio’s magnificent church and the Teatro Verde, I found a green space with two mature trees beautifully framing the view of the lagoon. It was like a small oasis in the big garden, perfect for contemplation. Our aim was to create a small space diffused with dappled shade and removed from the normality of passers-by, focussed instead on the water and sky beyond – a sanctuary”.

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 Site Plan Sketch

地盘图则草图

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由福斯特合作伙伴设计并由意大利家具公司Tecno建造，教堂结构反映了最初概念的轻盈和虚幻性质。它由一个支撑木甲板的塔式钢楼板结构和一个由钢桅杆和交叉臂组成的张拉结构，由预应力钢索和小斜圆形空心截面支撑。这使得横向交叉臂和垂直桅杆能够相互分离，同时保持结构稳定。它们共同创造了一个屋顶结构，能够同时抵抗垂直重力荷载和侧向风荷载。

Engineered by Foster + Partners and built by Italian furniture company Tecno, the chapel structure reflects the lightness and ethereal nature of the original concept. It consists of a ramped steel floor structure that supports a timber deck and a tensegrity structure which is made up of steel masts and cross arms, braced by prestressed steel cables and small inclined circular hollow sections. These enable the horizontal cross-arms and vertical masts to be separated from one another while remaining structurally stable. Together, they create a roof structure capable of resisting both vertical gravity loads and lateral wind loads.

 Elevation Sketch

高程素描

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 Axonometric View

这个空间是由一系列从甲板到张拉结构的落叶松制成的薄木板条围起来的。他们允许斑驳的光进入空间，同时提供遮荫和定义教堂的体积。木板与张拉结构之间的连接设计为独立滑动，以确保整个结构在风荷载作用下不会超载。种植在结构周围的茉莉花藤蔓会随着时间的推移爬上它，软化它的轮廓，释放出柔和的香味，以增强精神上的平静感。展馆将在2018年5月26日至11月25日期间继续向公众开放。

The space is enclosed by a series of thin timber slats made from larch that span from the deck to the tensegrity structure. They allow dappled light to enter the space while providing shade and defining the chapel’s volume. The connections between the timber slats and the tensegrity structure were designed to slide independently to ensure that the slats would not be overloaded when the entire structure moved under wind loads. Jasmine vines planted around the structure will climb onto it over time, softening its contours and releasing a gentle fragrance to enhance the sense of spiritual calm. The pavilion will remain open to the public between 26 May and 25 November 2018.

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奈杰尔·扬/福斯特合伙人

Architects Foster + Partners

Location Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

Project Year 2018

Photographs Nigel Young / Foster+Partners, Laurian Ghinitoiu

Category Chapel