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Interior view of the Church of the Light with the luminous cruciform opening cut into the concrete wall.

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Church of the Light

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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Church of the LightChurch of the Light

1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

MorphosisMorphosis

Pasadena, California, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1989Unrecorded
PlaceIbaraki, Osaka, JapanPasadena, California, United States
Place contextIbaraki, Osaka, JapanRepresentative site: New York, United States
Climate16°C · 13.3h daylight · 9 km/h wind8°C · 13.5h daylight · 19 km/h wind · via The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art / Morphosis Architects
FocusChurch7 works in corpus
Architects
  • Tadao Ando
  • Thom Mayne
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

Notable works

  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art / Morphosis Architects
  • Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse
  • 41 Cooper Square
  • Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics / Morphosis Architects
Typologies
  • religious building
  • chapel
  • offices
  • institutional buildings
  • dabas
  • educational
  • 3d modeling
  • house
  • civic building
  • gallery
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • glass
  • steel
  • aluminum
  • fabric
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
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.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
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