The Living Chapel Project
The Living Chapel is an architectural-landscape installation conceived by the musical composer Julian Revie: it is a place of inspiration that invites us to fight the climate crisis and a symbol of interreligious dialogue for the common goal of taking care of our planet. The Living Chapel is set in the Giardino Calderini, a picturesque garden in the heart of Roman Milan, in continuity with the remains of the entrance portico of the Casa dei Cori. This space, a symbol of the encounter between the different religious visions present in the world, welcomes in its essence the peaceful logic of interreligious dialogue, which in a natural push aimed at “caring for our common home” induces spiritual reflection and the intimate need for a harmonious connection between Man and Nature.
Entering the project, you enter an intimate space defined by columnar trees, where you can sit on a large circular wooden bench that, placed in the shade of a maple tree, refreshes the soul and restores the body. This is where Metalco comes into play, with our Cobra bench made with sustainable materials, which helps make this project special. With our product we want to best represent integral ecology and brotherhood in carrying out concrete actions for our planet, making the realization of this project an intrinsic formative moment of the founding values.
In particular, for the Living Chapel it was decided to use the CR model from the Cobra collection, that is, modules made up of curved benches without backrests and in this case without armrests, equipped with wooden seats, with a load-bearing structure and supports in plate or sheet steel, to reconnect the relationship between Man and Nature, making them feel in close contact with the nature that forms the backdrop to our daily lives.
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Modules from the Cobra collection consisting of benches, with or without backrest, composed of a wooden seat, with a load-bearing structure and supports in flat or sheet steel.
The Living Chapel was inaugurated in 2021 during a series of events, All4Climate, focused on the fight against climate change. It is located inside the Calderini Garden, in continuity with the remains of the Casa dei Cori, a fifteenth-century palace attributed to Bramante, of which only the entrance portico and some columns and statues remain. The Living Chapel is structured on the radial shape of the circle, designing a path that aims to recall the urgency of ecological conversion through its shapes and colors, which create chromatic contrasts with the life cycle of the plants present. The Calderini Garden, which includes both the Living Chapel and the remains of the Casa dei Cori, is named in honor of the historian Aristide Calderini, archaeologist and professor at the Catholic University, and is located in Milan, near the Archaeological Museum, between Sant’Agnese and Via Nirone.
