:: Moshe Safdie and Associates :: CLASS OF 1959 CHAPEL, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Moshe Safdie and Associates | Project Details

Project Name	CLASS OF 1959 CHAPEL, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Project Location	BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Client	Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration
Inception Date	1986-01-01
Completion Date	1992-01-01
Total Area	3,900 sq. ft. (362 sq. m.)
Project Cost	$2,500,000
Status	1986-1992
Design Team	Moshe Safdie and Associates with Contributing Artists Charles Ross: Prisms, and Karl Schlamminger: Timepiece
Brief	This nondenominational sacred and meditative building juxtaposes two very different spaces. A terraced garden rich in flowering trees offers a place for personal contemplation. Through its glazed, pyramidal roof visitors see the changing seasons of the campus outside. A 100-seat sanctuary, contained by rounded, apse-like concrete walls, rises to a height of 27 feet. This room is without a dominant axis for maximum flexibility and frequently functions as a home for musical performances of varying sizes. Skylights flood the walls with light from above and large-scale prisms fixed in the skylights refract the sun's full spectrum. The exterior of the building is a cylindrical oxidized copper drum penetrated on the west by the garden space. A tower timepiece marks the entrance to the chapel.