St. Mary’s College Chapel.

ArchiPro Project Summary - A serene student chapel designed in collaboration with Mark Cavagnero’s office, featuring thoughtfully crafted open spaces, courtyards, and gardens to enhance student life at St. Mary’s College High School.

Title:: A refuge for student renewal | St. Mary’s College High School Chapel
Landscape Architect:: ACLA
Category:: Community/; Educational
Photographers:: Henrik Kam & ACLA

Working with Mark Cavagnero’s office, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture designed the open space, courtyards and gardens for a new student chapel on the campus of St. Mary’s College High School. Serving as a venue for private meditation and prayer as well as daily mass services and special services throughout the year, the Chapel is a critical addition to student life.

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The white concrete chapel serves as icon and marker at the entrance to the campus of the 157-year old St. Mary’s College High School. Perched just above the neighboring creek, this stark, minimal building is a buffer between the bustle of student life and the quiet green of the riparian woodland.

Quiet courtyards and contemplative fountains complement the chapel building, extending the space for gathering and worship.

"Glowing with an offer of sanctuary and solace, whatever form one’s beliefs might take"
John King, Architectural Record

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ACLALandscape ArchitectsSan Francisco, California

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ACLA

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ACLA. Motivated by a conviction that landscape design has the power to alter perception and ultimately initiate a deeper respect for the environment, ACLA designs spaces that offer opportunities for users to forge new relationships with their surroundings. Through an iterative process, we find simple responses to complex problems, and seek to elevate experiences through layering and choreography of movement. The trust we build with our clients through long-term partnerships is an important foundation of our work, as each new project expands our expression of design and craft. With over two decades of award-winning projects, ACLA’s portfolio encompasses public, commercial and residential environments. Internationally recognized for quiet beauty and crisp restraint, our built landscapes create memorable, transformative interactions through simple, artistic gestures and a deep commitment to environmental integrity.