Maquette d'étude

"Only a poetic universe is habitable." (Bruyère)

To design the village museum dedicated to the works of Fernand Léger, André Bruyère adapted the project for the Sao Paulo chapel which he had designed in 1949. Bruyère was commissioned to study the plan of the International popular Building Exhibition scheduled to be held in Sao Paulo in 1950. A chapel was meant to be built there. The building is topped with a slim conoid vault. "A curtain acts as a facade. It is made of fabric. An infinite bend. The light diminishes progressively, then regains intensity." The architect had planned to accompany it with a monumental signal-sculpture imagined by Fernand Léger.