Church of the Light in ibaraki, Osaka designed by the pritzker architecture prize winner TADAO ANDO in 1989.
YES, this is not a typo mistake. The year is 1989. Today, we are living in the year 2009. This will take us back 20yrs in exact. HOWEVER, this building, its design and intention were so cleverly thought that for most visitors, most might not even realised its 20yrs old.
Church of the Light - an architecture truly deserved to be worshipped and uphold.
YES, this is not a typo mistake. The year is 1989. Today, we are living in the year 2009. This will take us back 20yrs in exact. HOWEVER, this building, its design and intention were so cleverly thought that for most visitors, most might not even realised its 20yrs old.
Church of the Light - an architecture truly deserved to be worshipped and uphold.
The Church of the Light is actually just a small structure on the corner of two streets at Ibaraki( a residential neighborhood ). The Church of the Light consists of three 5.9m concrete cubes (5.9m wide x 17.7m long x 5.9m high) penetrated by a wall angled at 15°, dividing the cube into the chapel and the entrance area. Visitors will have to move between the ONLY 2 spaces designed - the sunday school and the worship hall. This is the simplicity of the project, isnt it ?
Also, as one walks into the worship hall, you will notice that the benches are made from re-purposed scaffoldings used during the construction. Just as architecture of the new millenium starts to emphasize on GREEN ARCHITECTURE and recycling materials, there we have, tadao ando already contributing his environment friendly movement 20years back.
The highlight of the small church lies in the simplest constructed yet a complex design of the cruciform. This magnificent cruciform is cut into the concrete wall behind the alter and superbly brings in the sunlight from the east every morning.
The concept as tadao ando uses is the Zen philosophies when he is conceptualising his structures. This is many times the process many of the newer generation young architects have been missing on. THE PROCESS OF DESIGN.
In this work, he managed to express the theme of a dual nature existence - lights and shadows. With his cleverly thought of intention, the occupant is meant to become aware of the unique calmness and deep division between the spiritual and the secular within himself. Indeed a very profound idealogy executed perfectly.
Many past visitors had however complained of a important feature of this church of the light as disturbing. That is the distinct empitness found through the church of the light. For tadao ando, this emptiness one experiences in the building is to being able to transfer himself from a mortal world into a spiritual realm.
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