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架构师提供的文本描述。我们设计了新建筑的教堂，沿着新城的Kamitokoro河。这项工作已于2014年9月完成。

Text description provided by the architects. We designed the chapel of new construction along the Shinano River Kamitokoro, Niigata-city. It had been completed on September 2014.

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在设计上，保持与现有婚礼主建筑的平衡是很重要的。在这一点上，我们设计了礼拜堂的外观，作为一个体积，高度为14.5m。屋面和外墙采用一种施工方法完成，并尽可能地修剪了一条山脊线。我用自然石板和世俗变体的味道表达了对建筑的巨大感觉。

On designing it, it was important to keep balance with the existing main building for wedding. On that point we designed the appearance of chapel with the presence as one volume which height is 14.5m. Roof and outer wall were finished with one method of construction and were trimed a ridgeline as much as possible. I expressed a voluminous feel of the architecture by using natural slate with the taste of the secular variation.

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内部是干净的空间，与外观相反的两极是纯白色的。设计理念是“婚礼面纱”。白色被认为是过去宗教上重要的颜色，尤其是面纱被认为是保护新娘不受邪恶事物伤害的东西。面纱象征着过去的生活已经结束，并被赋予新的生命。新礼拜堂是一个干净的空间，柔软的面纱围绕着神圣的仪式和舞蹈祝福两个人。

The inside is the space that is clean with pure white for opposite poles with the appearance. The design concept is “Wedding Veil”. The white is considered to be the color that is religiously important from old days, the veil in particular has been conveyed as the thing which protected a bride from a wicked thing. The veil is symbolized that past life is over and is rebeared to new life. The new chapel is the clean space that the soft veils surround the holy ceremony and dance blessing two people.

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我们把28.6φ的管子一个接一个地组合在一起，做成布这样的形状来实现图像。这些管道都是相同5000 R的弧线，每条线路在长距离方向上都是反向的。我通过一点移动弧线交点的位置，改变一个角度来表达每一块布的摆动。

We united pipes of 28.6 φone by one and made a shape such as the cloth to realize the image. These pipes are all arcs of same 5000R, and are reversed each line in the long distance direction. I expressed the movement that each cloth wavers by moving the position of the point of intersection of the arc little by little, and changing an angle.

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面纱管是一个独立的结构体，与骨架的结构分离。当我们抬头一看，几块布似乎在天花板上翩翩起舞。这块布能从天花板上捕捉到光线，并在整个过程中发出更多的亮光。

The veil pipes make an independent structure body and separate from the structure of the skeleton. When we have a look up it, several pieces of cloth seems to dance in a ceiling flutteringly. The cloth catches the light from a ceiling and invests flare of the light in the whole more.

受到柔和的光线，面纱似乎正确地包住整个空间亲切。我认为我能够在制造复杂的相位差的同时，创造出极其简单的空间。

Receiving gentle light, veils seem to right wrap up the whole space kindly. I think that I was able to make extremely simple space while making complicated phase difference. 

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Architects Kasahara Design Work

Location 2 Chome-11-33 Kamitokoro, Chūō-ku, Niigata-shi, Niigata-ken 950-0994, Japan

Category Chapel

Architect in Charge Eriko Kasahara, Yumiko Ota

Area 161.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

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