church-sun-pu / TAIRA NISHIZAWA Architects CO.LTD.
| Progettista | Taira Nishizawa | |
| Location | 15–1, Aioicho, Aoi-ku Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka, 420‑0838, Japan | |
| Design Team |
1.architects : Taira Nishizawa Architects (Taira Nishizawa and Hiroyuki Unemori) |
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| Anno | 2008 | |
| Crediti Fotografici |
EXTERNAL 1 (SUNPU) : Hiroshi Ueda INTERNAL 1 (SUNPU) : Yasuhiro Takagi |
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Descrizione del progetto
Church Sun-pu
A Protestant Church built in wooden construction in Japan. It stands on a corner between commercial and residential zone in Shizuoka City. The sanctuary sits close to the commercial zone and faces a railway, and its corner entry face a town square. In contrast the remaining functions, including a parsonage, are near the residential zone. The chapel is a simple cube while the rest is under a pitched roof. The former looks similar in volume to neighboring buildings, the latter does like houses on a smaller residential street.
Throughout, pure light and the sound of voices were key to design; God is described first as “light” and then as ”the word”. During worship within, believers read the Bible together aloud.
The exterior is clad in split boards of Western-cedar with a wavy texture without being painted nor planed, so as to let the exterior be responding the light; Sunlight strikes this uneven surface and makes narrow shadow, when it comes in parallel with the walls, then the appearance is wrapped in shadow and light in sharpest contrast. The north façade, facing railway, is done so for 30minuites just before the sunset, and the west façade, facing side street, is done so at noon just after the church service. These walls also will age a black silver, lines of light and shadow looks like an etching plate, and will highlight 2 elements on the corner, a cross and an entry gate with Gararian grape-ivy filigree.
The interior is wrapped in slim boards of French-pine. The gap between each board is gradually widening further upward, so as to control the light and sound condition; There is an empty space behind the boards, in which the trussed structure are standing, is dampering and absorbing exterior noise or excessive internal echo, so as to achieve ideal reverberation for spoken word. The arc of light over time is also emphasized with this thick envelope: at the ceiling, each board almost thread-like, gauzily filtering light; light spills on th
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