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St. Paul's Church, Basel in Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

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St. Paul's Church, Basel

1901 · Canton of Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

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Church in Basel, Switzerland

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St. Paul's Church, Basel

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St. Paul's Church, BaselSt. Paul's Church, Basel

1901 · Canton of Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Shigeru Ban ArchitectsShigeru Ban Architects

1985 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19011985
PlaceCanton of Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt, SwitzerlandTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextCanton of Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt, SwitzerlandRepresentative site: Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan
Climate12°C · 14.0h daylight · 15 km/h wind11°C · 13.5h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Onagawa Station
FocusSacred building9 works in corpus
Architects
  • Karl Moser
  • Shigeru Ban
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Karl Moser

Notable works

  • Onagawa Station
  • Paper Dome
  • Centre Pompidou-Metz
  • Cardboard Cathedral
Typologies
  • gallery
  • church
  • sacred space
  • performance venue
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • civic building
Materials
  • stone
  • glass
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • glass
Carbon signals

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

  • Glass
  • Stone

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

  • Cardboard
  • Glass
  • Polycarbonate
Lower-carbon levers
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • 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 accessible8 of 8 recorded works are publicly accessible
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