Christ Pavilion, Expo 2000 Hanover.The Pavilion of Christian Religions, a combined contribution of the Catholie and Photestant Churches for EXPO 2000, was intended to be a contemplative con·tem·pla·tive adj. Disposed to or characterized by contemplation. See Synonyms at pensive. n. 1. A person given to contemplation. 2. A member of a religious order that emphasizes meditation. counterpart, to this self-promoting 'vanity fair'. Simple in structure, reduced to a few materials, precise in detail, unmlstakable in its appaearance and spatial character, the architecture of the Pavilion is restricted to the indid articulation of modular constrcuntion and detailing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The surrounding cloister cloister, unroofed space forming part of a religious establishment and surrounded by the various buildings or by enclosing walls. Generally, it is provided on all sides with a vaulted passageway consisting of continuous colonnades or arcades opening onto a court. , 4m wide and 6.80m high, frames the overall complex and simultaneously functions as an exhibition spaces. To the north the cloister comprises a voluminous hall 21m square and 18m high, its roof supported by nine slender cross-formed steel columns. Lighting and strong verticality give the hall a dignigy and solemnity SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the transition zone between the Christ Hall and the cloister, 'Rooms of Silence' explore themes of Christianity and the Church. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Staireases lead to the underground crypt crypt (krĭpt) [Gr.,=hidden], vault or chamber beneath the main level of a church, used as a meeting place or burial place. It undoubtedly developed from the catacombs used by early Christians as places of worship. . Walls are freely contoured with fair-faced conerate and three of the large cross-formed steel columns are extended through from the expansive ceiling. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Space is animated and tempered by the play of light. The Christ Hall receives light from toplights centrally located above the column heads, emphasising the vertical quality of the slender columns. The surroudning surfaces of thinly cut marble laminated laminated /lam·i·nat·ed/ (-nat?ed) having, composed of, or arranged in layers or laminae. laminated made up of laminae or thin layers. with glass form a light-transmitting envelop en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" , its lively colors illminating the space. The contrasts with the more muted lighting in the crypt. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The surrounding cloister is equipped with a double glass facade, which is also used as a large-scale showcase. The intersuitial spaces is filed with materials of various origins: from nature with coal, rush, bamboo, wood stribs, poppyheads, feathers etc, or from technology with sprockets, tea-strainers, hoses, lighters and syringes. Depending on the material, the walls exhibit varying degrees of translucency and transparency, so light penetration varies dramatically along the cloister. In 2001, the complete complex with the exception of the crypt, the colonnade colonnade (kŏlənād`), a row of columns usually supporting a roof. Colonnades were popular with the Greeks and Romans, who employed them in the stoa and the portico; they have continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, the and the water basin was dismantled dis·man·tle tr.v. dis·man·tled, dis·man·tling, dis·man·tles 1. a. To take apart; disassemble; tear down. b. after the EXPO and reassembled in the grounds of Volkenroda Abbey Volkenroda Abbey (Kloster Volkenroda) is a former Cistercian monastery in the municipality of Körner in the Unstrut-Hainich district of Thuringia, Germany. History The abbey was founded in 1131 and settled by monks from Altenkamp, although not dedicated until 1250. , Europe's oldest Cistercian monastery, dating back to the twelfth century and currently being restored. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Competition: 1997 - 1st prize Design: Meinhart von Gerkan and Joachim Zais Structural engineer: Binnewise, Hamhurg Client: Evang-lisches Baro fur dle Weltausstellung Expo 2000 Gross floor area: 2004[m.sup.2] Volume: 18 350[m.sup.4] Construction period: 1999-2000 Rebuilding in Volkenroda Abbey: February-Augast 2001 |
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