To the East and South, anonymous suburban surroundings offered no relevant urban references; hence, we decided to design the church's tower as an architectural landmark. To the West, we designed a courtyard connecting to the city's existing public spaces and opening to a steep valley offering distant seaside views. Today, the "End of the World" is known as Senhora da Boa Nova (or Our Lady of the "Good Word"). Throughout the project's development, the key conceptual elements were two empty spaces: the courtyard, a place where the community could meet; and the nave, a sacred space presenting that which could not be presented. We wished the nave to be an introspective, infinite, and irrepresentable space. In order to achieve this, we followed creative paths suggested by the works of Bernini, Piranesi and Rachel Whiteread.

Today, the church stands within an elliptical plan, providing a dynamic sense of scale, and covered by an interior dome, eliminating the wall/ceiling division and spatial references within. The windows are deep, bringing indirect natural lighting into the nave and distancing the suburban surroundings, and the exterior walls curve to present an anthropomorphic object holding within the ilimited, infinite, and irrepresentable void.