Cornwall Chapel is a refurbishment project of an old church in Southern England. The stone building is transformed into a light filled and light in weight house with three mechanically kinetic elements.

LOCATION Cornwall, UK

YEAR 2013

STATUS On Hold

PROGRAM Refurbishment

TEAM Minna Colakis, Yannis Kitanis,Carlos Loperena, Maria Pappa, Alexandros Vaitsos

Saint Andrew’s Chapel is situated in Newlyn, a town and fishing port in southwest Cornwall, England, UK. The town forms a conurbation with the neighboring town of Penzance and is the southernmost town on the British mainland (though not the most southerly settlement). The principal industry in Newlyn is fishing and therefore Newlyn’s history has been strongly linked to its role as a major fishing port.

Newlyn’s economy is largely dependent on its harbour and the associated fishing industry; Newlyn harbour is the largest fishing port in England. Newlyn was made famous in the 1880s and 1890s for its Newlyn School artists’ colony, including the painters Thomas Cooper Gotch, Albert Chevallier Tayler and Henry Scott Tuke. Because of Newlyn’s association with the creative arts there are also a number of artists and art galleries that are established in the area.