"Bjarke Ingels Group has been selected to design Faith Park, a 200,000-square-meter public park planned for the hillsides outside Tirana, Albania. Conceived as a landscape of coexistence, the masterplan brings together architecture, landscape, and spirituality in a single continuous terrain that connects the valley floor to the mountain's crest. The design unfolds as a 'genealogical tree of faith,' with pathways that diverge from a shared point in the valley and ascend through gardens, olive groves, and forested slopes."
"Each pavilion of Tirana's Faith Park is designed by the architects at Bjarke Ingels Group to be constructed in a material that draws on the geographic and cultural lineage of the tradition it represents: Jerusalem limestone for Judaism, colored Italian marble for Christianity, white sandstone mosaic for Islam, and an array of granite, onyx, marble, and river-polished stone for the Dharmic and East Asian traditions."
Faith Park is planned on the hillsides outside Tirana and will cover 200,000 square meters. The design organizes pathways that diverge from a common valley point and ascend through gardens, olive groves, and forested slopes. Nine pavilions devoted to distinct spiritual traditions are embedded within the terrain, placed to follow natural contours and to alternate between enclosed and open spatial conditions. The Museum of Remembrance at the park entrance gathers nine rammed-earth volumes around a central garden, emphasizing the land's physical presence. Pavilion materials reference each tradition's geographic and cultural lineage, creating a tactile sequence of surfaces across the park.
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