Pueblo Serena Church

Moneo Brook designed a church in Monterrey that presents recognizable architectural features taken from early Christian temple prototypes, with a contemporary design.

The church is located on a large plaza to the southeast of a new urban development in Monterrey, Mexico. Its main entry opens right onto the plaza, and with an unobstructed width of 11.5 meters, this opening allows for the visual connection of the interior space to the plaza.

The plaza can therefore function as an annex to the church, with religious celebrations and rites spilling out of doors when attending crowds exceed the church’s capacity of 350. Above the entry canopy, the facade is a large flat wall without fenestration or ornament, an emphatic and nearly square plane, declarative of the otherness of the space behind and within: the sacred space of the church interior.

The volumetric concept of the church derives from traditional church plans, and the design presents recognizable architectural features taken from early Christian temple prototypes, such as the bell tower, the stained-glass windows, the frontal altar, the baptistery, the choir, the three chapels and the lateral courtyard. Nonetheless, the design is undoubtedly contemporary.

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Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, Monterrey, 2016

Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, Monterrey, 2016

Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, Monterrey, 2016

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Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, site plan

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Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, ground floor

Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, section

Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena Church, section

Pueblo Serena Church, Monterrey
Program: church
Architect: Jeff Brock – Moneo Brock
Design team: Irene Alberdi, Andrés Barrón, Fabrice Leray, Jaime Salvador, Sara Pericacho, Irene Hernádez, Juan Galloso,
Structural engineering: RGT Ingeniería (Gerardo Hernandez)
Engineering: Grupo Termo Control (Victoriano Montemayor)
Construction management: Pueblo Serena
3D Model: Fabrice Leray, Andrés Barrón
Landscape: Harari Landscape Architecture
Acoustic consultant: Arau Acustic
Contractor: Inmobiliaria Cañon del Huajuco
Area: 1,600 sqm
Completion: 2016

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