SACRED SITE.This cardboard church is inventive constructionally and in terms of ritual. Shigeru Ban's paper buildings are becoming well known, but the jury could not fail to commend the Roman Catholic church Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome (see papacy and Peter, Saint). Its commonest title in official use is Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. he and volunteers from the congregation built out of paper tubes after the 1995 Kobe earthquake (AR September 1996). Completed in five weeks, the church is clad in corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. polycarbonate A category of plastic materials used to make a myriad of products, including CDs and CD-ROMs. sheeting supported by 58 cardboard tubes 330mm in diameter, 15mm thick, 5m tall. Materials were contributed by many companies. The cardboard columns are arranged in an ellipse ellipse, closed plane curve consisting of all points for which the sum of the distances between a point on the curve and two fixed points (foci) is the same. It is the conic section formed by a plane cutting all the elements of the cone in the same nappe. , a shape influenced, says Ban, by Bernini. The skin forms a rectangle outside the oval, and the roof structure ties the two together, giving structural continuity and lateral stiffness. The difference between the two geometries allows an ambulatory round the central congregational space, so the whole forms a luminous and gentle space: an apt and tender response to the disaster. The jury was very impressed by the inventive command of technology, coupled with an understanding of the sacral sacral /sa·cral/ (sa´kral) pertaining to the sacrum. sa·cral adj. In the region of or relating to the sacrum. sacral, adj pertaining to the sacrum. and ability to work with community. ARCHITECT SHIGERU BAN |
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