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Sound Of Wind Chapel breaks the limitations of ordinary chapel design

United Kingdom Architecture News - Feb 02, 2015 - 15:56 9095 views

Sound Of Wind Chapel designed by RAA-Ryuichi Ashizawa Architec&Associate in Japan.

The idea of a chapel associated with the hotel. It assumes a space filled with natural wind blowing from the Lake Biwa. Therefore we seek to make from this project a chapel as an instrument played by the tuneful natural wind, a structural stringed instrument interpreted as an Aeolian Harp, a space that plays the sound when the wind and nature passes through.

Sound Of Wind Chapel breaks the limitations of ordinary chapel design

interior view of the building

To produce the wind speed desired, we kept making and reading analysis and simulations trough models of the internal space, then we started working in the openings that creates shape into an architectural building. To create a continuos curved frame structure, domestic LVL was chosen as a material, it was then bended to create the structure, the structural plywood frame shapes the outside thereby playing a horizontal force. Plan as an upper airway of the internal space, I put in a 91mm pitch of 0.72mm SUS wire there.

Sound Of Wind Chapel breaks the limitations of ordinary chapel design

Then Karman vortex is generated around the string by the air flow, the strings began to resonance as vibration force, the sound then is born, it resonates in its wooden enclosure walls. Its thickness of 2.5mm thin inner plywood try as possible to increase the vibration. Futhermore, the instrument can be used to control the force of the wind by changing the degree of openings, closing or opening a portion of the windows present on the east side, changing the tone.

Sound Of Wind Chapel breaks the limitations of ordinary chapel design

Delving into this instrument, it covers people with its calm space and echo of the sound of the waves of the Lake Biwa, at all times, but when the wind in the space begins to flow stronger, the tone will change, also depending on the direction and speed of the wind.

Sound Of Wind Chapel breaks the limitations of ordinary chapel design

outer view of the chapel

When the wind that occurs accompanied by changes in its energy the friction force of the earth’s surface and attraction of the Earth and relations of a non-homogeneous solar energy of the surrounding mountains, and the Lake Biwa to the people inside, the sound interposes between what landscape and nature and what is architecture, a imperceptible variety of natural forces invade the imagination.

Sound Of Wind Chapel breaks the limitations of ordinary chapel design