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Rainbow Chapel
Tokyo, Japan
Project Featured on Aug 27, 2015
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Other Projects by Kubo Tsushima Architects
Rainbow Chapel
Tokyo, Japan
Project Featured on Aug 27, 2015
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
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A project for renovating a wedding hall in Ebisu, Tokyo. The building was constructed
during the economic bubble as an annex to an exclusive members-only salon next door.
Ownership changed hands several times, thereafter, but the building continued to be used
primarily as a wedding hall.
The current owner desired to eliminate the existing building’s excessive ornamentation and
realize a design animated by natural light. To this end, we proposed to give maximum play
to the oval plan and high sidelights of the chapel in the existing structure and to use light to
produce ornamentation.
By painting each high sidelight window a different color, we imparted faint color hues to
light entering the chapel. Ribs arrayed on the oval wall catch the colored light, so that
rainbow-like light fills the interior space.
In the bible, a rainbow is symbolic of a promise. By giving “decoration to light” instead of
using physical ornamentation, we have transformed the space into a contemporary
ceremonial space. (Hideaki Kubo + Yumi Tsushima / Kubo Tsushima Architects)
during the economic bubble as an annex to an exclusive members-only salon next door.
Ownership changed hands several times, thereafter, but the building continued to be used
primarily as a wedding hall.
The current owner desired to eliminate the existing building’s excessive ornamentation and
realize a design animated by natural light. To this end, we proposed to give maximum play
to the oval plan and high sidelights of the chapel in the existing structure and to use light to
produce ornamentation.
By painting each high sidelight window a different color, we imparted faint color hues to
light entering the chapel. Ribs arrayed on the oval wall catch the colored light, so that
rainbow-like light fills the interior space.
In the bible, a rainbow is symbolic of a promise. By giving “decoration to light” instead of
using physical ornamentation, we have transformed the space into a contemporary
ceremonial space. (Hideaki Kubo + Yumi Tsushima / Kubo Tsushima Architects)
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