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Architects: Shigenori Uoya Architects and Associates
- Area: 358 m²
- Year: 2011
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Photographs:Nakamura Kai
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Text description provided by the architects. This project is done for newly constructing a church which includes the residential space for the priest and his family.
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“The finitude and infinitude of space are polar elements, and in their polarity, human beings can express their power, also create their own space, and therefore create their own being.”
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“Sacred emptiness is an emptiness which is from inspiration. Emptiness is filled with the presence of that which cannot be expressed in any finite way. ”
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With the quote of a theologian, P.Tillich, we aimed to create the sacred emptiness, in which both finitude and infinitude reside.
![A Church in Kyoto / Shigenori Uoya Architects and Associates - Door](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/549d/fde4/e58e/cefd/f200/0034/newsletter/20.jpg?1419640275)