It’s easy to get googly-eyed by the onslaught of amazing green design out there these days. But it’s also important to look back a bit at some of the architectural precedent and acknowledge a building like Shigeru Ban’s Paper Church as the forward-thinking innovative design that it was. Built in 1995 and disassembled in 2005, the Nagata-Ku church in Kobe, Japan was built by church volunteers whose house of worship was destroyed by the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Using 58 paper tubes, the church is simple in its elliptical shape, but a dramatic spatial experience that turns low-tech materials into spiritual space.
I love it!
But I’ve often wondered what happens to traditional Japanese paper construction in high humidity or rainy conditions. Do the building members change dimensions?
Beautiful and resourceful design.
Fabulous….. but how many trees got choppes to make these 56 paper tubes?
Nice work:)
Bibi Rogers – no need to cut trees to make paper tubes – wood industrial waste can be used.
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I love all of these. they’re beautiful i am actually designing a church now and these have really helped me. if you have any suggestion on how to attract younger people to church please e-mail me.
Holly,
This is a very difficult thing to do. I think the goal of attracting younger people to church is a matter of church dogma and should not be a design problem. To do so would render your design and the church you are designing it for as a situationally locked as any fashion or trend that we young people cater to. Don’t fight this through shallow design trends, they age fast.
I like it, without patterns consumism, totally clear and new concept.
I question, the architecture paper use come envolvemnts, ¿where i can see more about this?
Details of the paper church and it’s current location can be found here:
http://www.guidegecko.com/taiwan/monuments-buildings/puli-paper-dome/p,608183157