Ramos Alderete creates La Ermita de Lola shrine in Spanish garden
Ramos Alderete creates La Ermita de Lola shrine in a Spanish garden
The architectural firm Ramos Alderete has created a concrete grotto to remember in a private garden in Las Rozas (Spain), with a concave opening that houses a stone sculpture.
Madrid-based Ramos Alderete collaborated with architect Ana Isabel Santolaria on the project, designed for a couple who lost their daughter Lola shortly after her birth and wanted a memorial to keep her memory alive.
Named La Ermita de Lola, the shrine houses the sculpture of the Pregnant Virgin by artist Javier Viver, placed in a niche in its center. The idea of a grotto or hermitage for the Virgin Mary came from the clients and is a common religious archetype.
"The hermitage is conceived as an excavated stone and has its origin in the concepts of chapel, womb, mystery, rock and, above all, in the sculpture of Javier Viver," said the architects, referring to the way the sculptural figure is embracing its womb.
