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1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

Church of the Light interior view

Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

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Church of the Light

Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

Credit: Bergmann

Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 · licensed

Comparison

Field	Church of the Light 1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan	Luis Barragan 1945 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1989	1945
Place	Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan	Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Place context	茨木摂津線, 千里万博公園, 吹田市, 日本	Representative site: Calle General Francisco Ramírez, Ampliación Daniel Garza, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
Climate	13°C · 13.3h daylight · 5 km/h wind	9°C · 12.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Luis Barragán House and Studio
Focus	Church	1 works in corpus
Architects	Tadao Ando	Luis Barragan
Linked context	Bureaus Tadao Ando Architect & Associates	Notable works Luis Barragán House and Studio
Typologies	religious building chapel	museum house
Materials	concrete glass	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass	museum and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	Tadao Ando: Complete Works	No linked books yet.