To honor the recent death of Korean-Japanese architect Jun Itami, I am posting pictures from one of his designs, the Church of Sky. The building, if one notices closely, is situated on a mirror of artificial water. The volume is divided along a longitudinal axis with the ends the house of the celebrations and the parish offices.
The entrance, positioned in the center of the volume, together with the main staircase, which distributes in the basement, and the room of the minister constitute a secondary volume more rigorous in the form that occurs at right angles to the main volume. The lower floor houses a large refectory, kitchen, pantry, installations and a parish hall.
The roof made of a steel structure with wood panelling, and sloping roof and descends gently as to form a bow low that overlooks the mirror of water. The surface of the roof, treated as a texture, and the only ornament granted. The roof is panelled zinc of triangular shape of three different colors ranging from gray antrancite quartz.
The panels are arranged according to a model generated the computer where the effect given is that of a patchwork that spark in the sun as a quilt of metal giant. This approach and coating system meets the greatest concern of Itami, to conceive a structure more than that it was aware of the existence of heaven, to find a balance between the roof and the sky.
The natural light and channeled in the entrance hall through an elegant and streamlined structure rhomboid, while the side walls of the church are lined with long shiny opaque glass panels allowing to interior space changes of lighting, light and shadow, which occur outside.
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