Church of forest
杜の教会
By constructing the whole site, to enclose the architecture with the knolls, the boundary between everybody lives and "Hare" of wedding ceremony was represented. The bride and groom are leaded to the approach corridor, though the knolls, crossing the pond to the interior space of the chapel. The landscape consist of the knolls, pond and trees, is attempted the harmony between the form of chapel and environment in the circumference, and intended to emphasize the significance of the space surrounded. The rood which established 450 millimeters slit for the body, approahes to the altar, while the external wall in the oval plan leans toward the 7 degrees to the above, and the interior space of chapel is ennobled.
The roof was structured by webs of CTsteel and edge of flat steel bars which were showed on the ceiling, and intended to express the design of structures gently. The approach corridor is set at 35 degrees angle to the main body of architecture, forming the space of " interface" between the chapel and waiting room side, and it was made to be carried the role that switching to the solemn feeling while approaching to the chapel. The cross of light by the slit was established on the front face in the chapel. The large windows of both sides adopts the outside views, and it has created the space with "faint strain" which projects the fluctuation of the reflected light of the ripple of the pond on wall surface and ceiling.



