架构师提供的文本描述。由芬兰建筑师阿尔瓦阿尔托设计，里奥拉帕里什教堂是一个惊人的混凝土形式，模仿和调整其意大利景观轮廓。宏伟的洗礼，于1978年完成，位于博洛尼亚以南8公里的里奥拉小镇。阿尔托令人回味的现代主义建筑抓住了这座山的精神，它是一种精神结构，里面和外面，令人不由自主地表达了信仰和地方的神圣性。

Text description provided by the architects. Designed by Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, Riola Parrish Church is a stunning concrete form which mimics and modulates with the contours of its Italian landscape. The magnificent baptistery, completed in 1978, is located eight kilometers south of Bologna in the small town of Riola. Aalto’s evocative modernist architecture captures the spirit of this mountain setting; it is a spiritual structure which, inside and out, unassumingly expresses sanctity of faith and place.

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内部礼拜堂对光的发挥是特别神圣的；北方的光是通过垂直的，不对称的肋骨扩散，这创造了一个宏伟的软光网格，投射到崇拜者身上。光明的存在使占领者超越了神圣的境界。

The interior chapel's play on light is especially divine; the northern light is diffused through vertical, asymmetrical ribs, which create a majestic grid of soft light which projects down onto the worshipper.  The presence of light brilliantly transcends the occupier into a holy state.

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圣坛周围的强化光是为了在圣坛、唱诗班和管风琴的运作空间与洗礼之间创造一个密切的关系。六角形浸礼室被木皮占据，当它们接近发光的圣坛时，它们的高度会下降。

The intensified light around the alter is intended to create a close relationship between the functioning spaces of the alter, choir and organ, and the baptistery.  The hexagonal baptistery is occupied by wooden pews that descend in height as they approach the luminous alter.

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教堂独特的外部轮廓是由里奥拉周围的三座山所启发的：蒙托沃罗山、蒙特维格塞山和维戈山。它的形式是与自然和谐的，这是存在于阿尔托有意纯粹的几何形式，集中在一个中心点，以代表中心教会本身所代表的中心。

The church’s distinct exterior profile is inspired by the three mountains that surround Riola: Montovolo, Monte Vigese and Monte Vigo. Its form is harmonious with nature, and this is present in Aalto’s intentionally pure geometric forms which converge at a central point to represent the center the church itself represents.

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教堂的内部是适度的朴素，以现代主义的风格，而不是突出其建筑拱门与自然光从上面。唯一的另一扇窗户是一小块玻璃，向外眺望着附庸的河流-利门特拉河(Limentra)。

The interior of the church is left moderately unadorned, in modernist style, and instead highlights its architectural arches with natural light from above. The only other window is a sliver of glass which views out toward the adjunct river, the Limentra torrent.

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里奥拉教区教堂据说是阿尔瓦·阿尔托的灯具的特征；这种结构中支撑光架的建筑肋骨使人想起用来支撑他的灯具结构的结构。这就是为什么这个发光的建筑如此辉煌的原因吗？

The Riola Parish Church is said to be characteristic of Alvar Aalto’s lamps; the architectural ribs which support the light shelves in this structure are reminiscent of the structure used to support the structure of his light fixtures. Is this perhaps the reason this luminous piece of architecture is so brilliant?

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