Chapel for the Dominican Sisters. A new 6,000 s.f., 100 seat chapel addition to a convent for the Dominican Sisters in Dighton, MA. Constructed of natural cedar and field stone gathered by the sisters from farmer’s fields. The project included acoustical design, lighting design, and liturgical furnishings. The design included spaces for procession, gathering, music, a capella singing, symbolic baptism, a floating tabernacle in a chapel of reservation defined by a double wall with apparently randomly placed colored glass set in tapered openings, a reconciliation room in the shape of a tear, a sacristy, stations of the cross, and a bridge from the convent to an outdoor labyrinth and woodland chapel.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.

Chapel for the Dominican Sisters.