KAPELLE Digna 
The chapel of St. Benedict (S. Benedetg) is in town of Sumvitg (municipality in the canton of Grisons) but well above it, perched on a hillside in the Alps.
Winding through the mountains and following an ordeal we encounter typical elements of vernacular architecture in Switzerland, where he mastered the use of wood material found both in traditional buildings in the contemponráneas.
Just a few meters before reaching S. Benedetg appear the ruins of the old chapel, built from 1260 to 1270 and in 1984 was destroyed by an avalanche.
is anchored to the slope by placing the apse at the bottom and tapering to an edge at the top creating a teardrop shape in plan seems so contemporary in the work of Zumthor.
Instead
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor build a new chapel in 1988.
Its materialization refers to the traditional Swiss wall construction based on wood chips, eventually, end up becoming the mineralizing peculiar grayish tone.
On one side is the entrance that is a projection of the curved surface of the facade, the door is made of vertical wooden listoncillos and the landing of the entrance is a step below the floor of the chapel.
The roof structure follows the veins of a leaf: a central beam that leave other smaller section, with a slight slope, all of
plywood. These ribs terminate in a flat edge beam large section, the hub of a number of studs in the same section that is closed to form below the floor slab which creates a sort of cage-like lattice the style of the balloon-frame Americans.
The enclosure roof sheathing is tongue and groove pine, then we have the insulation and finally the closing of the cover sheet metal.
entire outer wall, which is double, and is crowned above by a glass run. The floor is
stage and sits on the floor joists plywood.
All nodes are resolved with traditional assemblies (mortise and tenon).
The enclosure interior sheet metal and attached to the studs with a faint metallic fixation so that seems to float.
All elements relating to religion are reduced to a minimum without losing its representation and meaning.
The tranquility and balance to get Peter Zumthor with this little building makes it worth getting lost in the Swiss mountains and turn the route to reflect if only for 1 minute in the interior of this elegant chapel.
