On treating the architectonic topic of the Church of the Benedictine Monastery it must be built by incorporating other factors that are not commonly treated in a traditional temple. The formal typological development escapes all prior conception developed for a religious building, therefore, conceptual factors both mystic and devotional come into play that are integrated in the formulation of the work. This poetic conception of space is what Le Corbusier called “the indescribable space”.

Architectonically, the temple is developed starting from a modern configuration, of simple volumes: prisms, specially cubes and parallelepipeds as main figures that are associated among themselves through their sides and vertexes. Two “light cubes” linked by their vertexes form the main space, one contains the altar that faces the monks and the other one is where the faithful are located. A cube finishes off the work as a bell tower, which projects its shadow as the day elapses.

Access to the temple is through an ascending ramp simulating a procession that leads to the zone where the modern sculpture dedicated to the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus is located. Slowly, on going up, the visitor can appreciate the architecture and interior space of the Church as it is revealed to spectators, until reaching the top part, from where the complete form of the nave can be appreciated. Two large areas can be observed, one for the faithful and the other for the monks. They are separated and face each other by a common area through a staircase that leads to the presbytery, where the union between the architectonic work and poetic religiousness can be understood in a single element, where the evolving route of its spaces is fundamental to understand it. Its walls are of structured concrete whitened with whitewash and with rustic terminations in an abstract type were you can appreciate the trace of the formwork.

Looking towards the altar on the left there is a small chapel for the Holy Sacrament, which is accessed both through the area of the faithful as well as that of the monks and it has a beautiful amber color due to the hue of the light entering the spaces between the walls. On the right and bordering the access ramp there is a small space that has a transparent urn containing a sculptural ensemble of the Sacred Family.