"'The challenge of the design was to find a way to allow the architecture to mediate between a charged landscape and the sacred narratives that arose within it. It demanded a building that could work with allegory,' share the architects. 'At the same time, the project needed to use local labor, skills, and resources to achieve something with a sense of social responsibility and low carbon expenditure.'"
"Architecture becomes a mediator, framing a passage from dryness to fertility, from enclosure to revelation. The eastern entrance and western exit face one another across a public square, marked by a triangle and a circle. The London-based architects describe these as emphasizing a life in Christ as the Alpha and Omega. Between them, a stepped landscape rises onto the roof, imagined as an elevated archaeological terrain with mosaic floors set between low stone walls."
Níall McLaughlin Architects will design the Museum of Jesus' Baptism at Bethany, Jordan, adjacent to the UNESCO-listed Baptism Site and scheduled to open in 2030 for the bimillennial of Christ's baptism. The design is conceived as an east–west architectural journey that mediates between the charged desert landscape and sacred narratives through procession, materiality, and light. Visitors descend from an arid wilderness garden into the earth, cross a water-filled rift, and re-emerge into light and a cultivated paradise garden. The eastern entrance and western exit face across a public square marked by a triangle and a circle, symbolizing Alpha and Omega. A stepped roof landscape with mosaic floors and low stone walls evokes archaeological terrain. The project prioritizes modest, earth-bound form, local labor and skills, social responsibility, and low carbon expenditure.
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