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2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Cardboard Cathedral image

Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Field	Cardboard Cathedral 2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand	Mass Studies Seoul, South Korea
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2013	Unrecorded
Place	Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand	Seoul, South Korea
Place context	Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand	Representative site: Seoul, South Korea
Climate	Climate unavailable	9°C · 13.4h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via S-Trenue Tower
Focus	Cathedral	2 works in corpus
Architects	Shigeru Ban	Mass Studies Minsuk Cho
Linked context	Bureaus Shigeru Ban Architects	Notable works S-Trenue Tower Boutique Monaco
Typologies	cathedral religious building temporary architecture	mixed use offices residential housing tower office
Materials	cardboard timber polycarbonate	glass
Carbon signals	Cardboard and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Cardboard Polycarbonate	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.