On a frozen stretch of the North Quad, what began as a fun winter construction experiment grew into something far more meaningful: a student-built ice chapel that drew thousands into prayer, community, and shared wonder. For Wesley Buonerba ’27, School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, the project became a powerful lesson in how architecture shapes human experience far beyond the classroom. The idea emerged after Buonerba and Martin Soros ’26, a civil engineering major, watched...