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July 20 to Lausanne took place l’inauguration provisional chapel of the deaconesses of Holy Wolf. Fruit of the collaboration between researchers and architects, the structure of this place of worship s’inspire directly of l’art of l’origami.

Authorized to construct a place of usable worship during the renovation of the existing chapel, l’architecte Danilo Mondada and l’agence Localarchitecture associated themselves with the researchers of the laboratory Ibois of l’School Polytechnique Federal of Lausanne.

The members of this laboratory in fact elaborated an allowing computer procedure to give forms to architectural structures s’inspirant of l’origami, l’art Japanese of the pliage of paper.

Result of l’association of the two agencies d’architecture and start up d’Yves Weinand and Hani Buri, researchers members of the laboratory Ibois, This fleeting chapel completely is realized in wood panels. First created realization from this computer procedure, she went out of earth in scarcely 2 months.

For more d’informations on the project, visit the site of the Office d’Etudes Weinand

Sources: Techno science and School Polytechnique Federal of Lausanne
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