Lauritsalan kirkko

Lauritsala is a town seven kilometers northeast of Lappeenranta, in southern Karelia. The concrete church was designed by Toivo Korhonen and Jaakko Laapotti and built in 1969. The church is approached through a planted forecourt.
In plan the building is an Isosceles right triang.e, while in section it is a right triangle with curved (probably hyperbolic) hypotenuse.
The altar is at the corner of both triangles and is daylit. To accommodate the skylights, the board-formed concrete ceiling gives way to curved concrete beams.
The geometrical rigor of the form is alleviated by careful detailing and a variety of surface textures.
(posted 23 July)