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Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch City, New Zealand

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Cardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Cardboard Cathedral

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Cardboard CathedralCardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Robin BoydRobin Boyd

1947-1971 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131947-1971
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
ClimateClimate unavailable17°C · 10.9h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Walsh Street House
FocusCathedral2 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban
  • Robin Boyd
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Walsh Street House
  • Featherston House
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • house
  • residential
  • modernism
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • brick
  • glass
  • timber
Carbon signals

Cardboard and Polycarbonate look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

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

  • Brick
  • 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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible0 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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