St. John’s Church in Männistö is a church of Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the Linnanpello district of Kuopio. The church, completed in 1992, was designed by architect and academician Juha Leiviskä and architect Pekka Kivisalo, who won an invitational competition for the design of the church in 1985.
In its design, Leiviskä has sought to create an interaction between small and large, low and high, closed and open, and shade and light. Inside, the lobby areas lead to a large church hall, which with its altar walls forms the culmination of the space process. According to Leiviskä, the most important building material in the church hall is daylight. Light generates multiple indirect reflections in the space, which are most strongly seen in the morning, during the mass celebration. The look of the spaces is constantly changing during the day according to the variations of the daylight. In Leiviskä’s words, the church is "an instrument that light plays with."
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St. John’s Church in Männistö is a church of Evangelical Lutheran congregations in the Linnanpello district of Kuopio. The church, completed in 1992, was designed by architect and academician Juha Leiviskä and architect Pekka Kivisalo, who won an invitational competition for the design of the church in 1985.
In its design, Leiviskä has sought to create an interaction between small and large, low and high, closed and open, and shade and light. Inside, the lobby areas lead to a large church hall, which with its altar walls forms the culmination of the space process. According to Leiviskä, the most important building material in the church hall is daylight. Light generates multiple indirect reflections in the space, which are most strongly seen in the morning, during the mass celebration. The look of the spaces is constantly changing during the day according to the variations of the daylight. In Leiviskä’s words, the church is "an instrument that light plays with."
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PS: Here is an interesting video about Juha Leiviskä posted on /r/ModernistArchitecture that made me discover this wonderful architect.