Jorn Utzon and Bagsværd Church

Lige Tan|Yusheng Fan|Xiang Qiang

Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

Jørn Utzon

Lige Tan|Yusheng Fan|Xiang Qiang

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Jørn Utzon

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Jorn Utzon, born in 1918, in Copenhagen. His father Asge Utzon was a naval architect who was the designer of a metal-hulled ketch Explorer.He visited the International Exhibition in Stockholm in 1930. He saw the exhibition building design by the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. The new live style ideas was promoted at the exhibition and then started to be adapted by his family. He started to study architecture at Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen in 1937.

He had Steen Eiler Rasmussen (the author of Experience Architecture) and Kay Fisker. Swedish painter Carl Kylberg also had the influence on Utzon.

[1] Photo Credit: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130711-design-classic-down-under [2] Photo Credit: http://mishapsandmemories.blogspot.com/p/about-phoenix_3.html [3] Photo Credit: https://ianthompsonarchitect.com/greta-magnusson-grossman [4] Photo Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steen_Eiler_Rasmussen.jpg

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Jørn Utzon

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He joined Gunnar Asplund in Stockholm in 1942 after his graduation and returned to Denmark after the World War II. In year of 1946, Utzon visited Alvar Aalto and started working in Aalto’s office.

[1] Photo Credit: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Asplund#/media/File:Gunnar_Asplund_1940.jpg [2] Photo Credit: http://www.utzonphotos.com/guide-to-utzon/inspirations/alvar-aalto/

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Jørn Utzon

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He traveled to the United State and Mexico in 1949. In America, he visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s home Taliesin West in the Arizona desert and met Charles and Ray Eames. (wiki)And during his trip to Mexico, he was enlightened by the “platform” from the study to the Mayan pyramids. For Utzon, the power of the Mayan temple complexes resided not so much in the articulation of the buildings themselves as in their ability to transform the experience of the landscape. The platform literally elevated everything up above the dense forest and made the Mayan more close to the sky and God.

[1] Photo Credit: Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture , p 219 [2] Photo Credit: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/ forbidden-city-black-and-white-beijing-china-brendan-reals.jpg [3] Photo Credit: Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture , p 226

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Jørn Utzon

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Sydney Opera House

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Kuwait national Assembly

[1] Photo Credit: http://www.easyconsultants.co.in/application/files/4914/3547/3842/ Sydney_Opera_House_Sails.jpg [2] Photo Credit: http://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5465/1572/e58e/ceec/ b500/017e/large_jpg/JVDW_6.jpg?1415910763 [3] Photo Credit: http://static.wixstatic.com/media/9f0860_60a9560065754af481d1f35b6 3a5dcba.jpg

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Can Lis

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Jørn Utzon

Sydney Opera House 1956-1973 Sydney, Australia

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In 1957, Jorn Utzon was declared winner of the competition. And nobody will image it took almost 20 years to finish the building but not including the interior Utzon designed.

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 9

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Jørn Utzon

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The site condition before the opera house was built on.

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 10 [2] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 12 [3] Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 12

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John Eyre, View of Sydney Cove looking toward Bennelong Point,1808.[3]

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Jørn Utzon

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Early sketches for the opera house shows the evolving of the canopy geometry. The second sketch reveals the idea of clouds floating overs the sea. [4]

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 68 [2] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 49 [3] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 50 [4] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 49

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Jørn Utzon

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The Geometry study of the outer shell and interior ceiling.

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 69 [2] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 70 [3] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 71 [4] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 164 [5] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 165

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Jørn Utzon

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Figure.3 [1] Photo Credit: https://nouwcdn.com/12/1275000/1260000/1251516/pics/2016092321390866552_sbig.jpg [2] Photo Credit: http://www.australia.gov.au/sites/default/files/global_site/library/images/australian_stories/SOHglassed-in-windows.jpg [3] Photo Credit: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/srnsw-public-photos/12708_00041.jpg [4] http://slyfelinos.com/plans/marklee-solo-houses-round-house-on-3-section-house-floor-plans-2409316.jpeg

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Jørn Utzon

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[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 174 [2]-[4]Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 175 [3] McCarter's comment in Class

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Utzon got inspiration for the opera house interior ceiling for the Chinese Ming Dynasty architectural book “yingzaofashi“. He was interested in the idea of brackets in Chinese architecture. Each piece of the ceiling piece in the opera house is fabricated, but when it was together, it looked like one solid piece. [3]

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Jørn Utzon

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Construction illustration drawing and construction site image.

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 98 [2] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 122-123

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Jørn Utzon

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Because of the set up of the government, Utzon left the project 28, April 1966 with all the ideas worked out. And never went back to Sydney after that. He never saw his project finished in person.

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 178 [2] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 6

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Kuwait National Assembly

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Kuwait National Assembly Building 1972-1982

Designed by Jørn Utzon in 1972, was completed in 1982 under the direction of his son Jan Utzon. The building was seriously damaged during Gulf War but has been restored.

[1] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/568821/ad-classics-kuwait-national-assembly-building-jorn-utzon

Brief of other projects

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Kuwait National Assembly There is one central street . Volume with courtyard are placed along that central street.

Various sections are arranged in side streets going out from the central street.

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Figure 2 [1] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/568821/ad-classics-kuwait-national-assembly-building-jorn-utzon/ [2] Ibid [3] Ibid

Brief of other projects

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Kuwait National Assembly

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First part you see is the covered square of building.

It was also working as the entrance of the building.

The form is taking from desert tents. And the geomtry of the cloumn and roof is from the bamboo. The volume of column is massive, but it is hollow seen from outside.

Figure 2 [1] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/568821/ad-classics-kuwait-national-assembly-building-jorn-utzon/ [2] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 4: Kuwait National Assembly, p.40 [3] Ibid, p.56 [4] Ibid, p.100

Brief of other projects

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Kuwait National Assembly

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On the right side is the water color drawing of Utzon, left side is the real view of the Entrance.

Small people passing huge columns experience the light coming in from above curling round the columns.

[1] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/568821/ad-classics-kuwait-national-assembly-building-jorn-utzon/ [2]Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 4: Kuwait National Assembly, p.10

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Kuwait National Assembly

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Central Street The same logic between roof and coloumn also happens in the central street. Utzon opens the joints between the coloumn and roof, and let the light coming through the columns. And the roof change to another geomtry.

Figure 2 [1]Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 4: Kuwait National Assembly, p.136 [2] Ibid, p.140 [3] Ibid, p.135

Brief of other projects

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Kuwait National Assembly

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[1]Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 4: Kuwait National Assembly, p.89 [2] Ibid, p.91 [3] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/568821/ad-classics-kuwait-national-assembly-building-jorn-utzon/

Hall of Parliarment It shares the same geometry logic with covered square. The curving roof tilt up on the north-east side allowing the light coiming in. And roof itself was broken down into several thin concrete surface. And they are supported by the anchor cloumn.

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Brief of other projects

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Kuwait National Assembly

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Side treet and other spaces: On the top is the diagram show the space organization by the central street and side street, the bottom pictures show the space along the side street.

[1]Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 4: Kuwait National Assembly, p.41

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Brief of other projects

ahead, asked 'How do I start?'!" Trabeated construction was in Utzon's mind, but the specific

[2] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/568821/ad-classics-kuwait-national-assembly-building-jorn-utzon/

inspiration he recalls came from a two-storey columned building in the Topkapi Palace in

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Jørn Utzon

Can Lis 1966- 1973 Majorca, Spain

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After Jorn Utzon left the Sydney Opera project in 1966, he decided to settle on Majorca.

Can Lis was built in 1972

[1] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 82

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Jørn Utzon

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The entrance of Can Lis.

[1] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 12 [2] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 13

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Jørn Utzon

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-Its apertures like fingers stretching out to the ocean, he got the idea after sitting in a cave that is almost directly below the site.

-Glass fitted on wood frame outside face of house -Did not want to see frames (modern cave) -Leverance got idea from him

[1] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 68 [2] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 19

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Jørn Utzon

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The absolute unity of place and view, of shelter and exposure, provided the essence of the feeling he wanted to recreate in his new home.

[1] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 59 [2] Photo Credit: A+U March 2013 Special Issue: Can Lis - Jorn Utzon's House On Majorca. P. 67

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Jørn Utzon

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The concept of Triangular chimny came from Majorca traditional building.

House is made emtirely from materials found on island.

[1] Photo Credit: http://bigupnoply.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-lis-jorn-utzon.html [2] Photo Credit: http://bigupnoply.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-lis-jorn-utzon.html [3] Photo Credit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/greathomesanddestinations/house-hunting-in-majorca.html

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

Bagsværd Church 1968-1976 [1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 34-35

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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The Bank of England by Sir John Soane is using the similar way of inviting light into the interior. People see light coming from the top without seeing the source and the room is illuminating by the reflective light on the side wall.

[1]-[2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 166

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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Traditional Chinese elements also influenced Utzon’s design. The gable end wall in Anhui Province and the plan of traditional Buddhist temple have the strong resemblance with the church.

[1] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 42 [2] Photo Credit: Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture , p 294 [3] Photo Credit: Fromonot, Jørn Utzon : Sydney Opera House, p 49

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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One of Aalto’s Competition project, a cemetery at Lyngby, Denmark, has the similarity in plan composition. [4] The long, rectangle geometries articulated the courtyards.

Figure.2 [1]-[3] Photo Credit: https://www.finnisharchitecture.fi/2015/04/ pleasant-it-is-to-be-when-death-is-near-alvar-aaltos-unrealized-cemeteryand-funeral-chapel-designs-in-jyvaskyla/ [4] Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 156

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

Gunnar Asplund’s Woodland chapel, is one of the predecessor with very different feeling between the exterior and interior space.

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Figure.3 Figure.2 [1] Photo Credit: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4c/69/23/4c6923362eeff5509be ab375237fc134.jpg [2] Photo Credit: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/dc/6e/5a/dc6e5a597b0ff2ea9c 0dd1abe8db6bc2.jpg [3] Photo Credit:https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/21/4e/7d/214e7df9f8c483d86b 6a4aafb7937c2b.jpg [4] Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 156

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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The Concept of anchoring the sacred space as a place within nature inspired by Japanese Shinto Shrines Fushimi-Inari, where rectangle, gravel-coverd openings cut out the surrounding forest. The wooden Paifang set up the corridor to the sacred space.

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[1] Photo Credit: http://www.placestoseeinyourlifetime.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ Fushimi-Photo-by-David-Kosmos-Smith.jpg [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 157

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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Utzon’s early projects, the printing works building and the Melli Bank in Tehran,served as precursors. revealed his ideas of admitting light into the space. The folded plate roof-beam on the bank only letting the reflective light into interior.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 156 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 156 [3] Photo Credit: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2p_FbUVsG8/UqpN2_LhSuI/AAAAAAAAAVA/ zDYui3MVBt0/s1600/6082003137_44c9ef0b80_b.jpg [4] Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 158

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

Bagsværd

55°45’N 12°26’E

33km Northwest of Copenhagen Copenhagen

The Church is adjacent the Bagsvaerd road. There was a church on site until it was burned down in 1600s. And the neighbourhood has been saving money for a new one.[3]

[1] Photo Credit: Google map [2] Photo Credit: Google map [3] McCarter's comment in class

Bagsværd Church

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

Approaching the site from Bagsvaerd road.

The North facade.

All Photo Credit: Google map (street view)

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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Looking at the west facade.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 94-95 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 100 Figure.2

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Approaching to the church entrance for public.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 94-95 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 100

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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Utzon wanted the church has no relation with the busy road. He wanted the sacred space surrounded by the birch trees.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 162-163 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 157 Figure.2

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Closer look at the South facade.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 97

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

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The East facade.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 110-111

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Jørn Utzon|Bagsværd Church

The North facade totally closes off from the main road, try to cut all the connection with it.

And on the other side, several courtyards start to dissolve the facade to invite people in.

[1] Photo Credit: Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 / Jørn Utzon, p 40

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Bagsvaerd Church

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[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.168

Interior Special Hierarchy|Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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From the plan, we can find the building divided into two parts, one is church program on west and another is community program for the neighberhood on east side. The church space are embraced by side corridor. And courtyard and program are also embraced by the corridor from three direction.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.124 [2] Ibid, p.120

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Interior Spatial Hierarchy

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Most public part of the building are the church part including the entrance, church and corridor.

Semi-public space of the building are corridor in the east part of building and 11 small chapel.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.120 [2] Ibid

Bagsvaerd Church

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Interior Spatial Hierarchy

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Bagsvaerd Church

Semi-private space of the building are 3 sacristy used for changing cloth and keeping holy obejects. 4 waiting room. 6 multi-function room as dining, candidates’s room and classroom.

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Private space of the building are 5 office and 8 meeting room.

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[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.120 [2] Ibid

Interior Spatial Hierarchy

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Bagsvaerd Church

Survice space of the building are kitchen, restrooms and storages on ground floor and mechanical room, restrooms and storages on basement floor.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.120 [2] Ibid, p.128

Interior Spatial Hierarchy

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Bagsvaerd Church

The drawings show the spatial sequence and Hierachiy from left to right. The building starts with public space from left and become more and more private on right side. It is related with the program of the building. And where the ceilding are manipulated, the spaces are more public.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.124 [2] Ibid, p.120

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Interior Spatial Hierarchy

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Public Goal-routeFront view of the building shows entrance and volume of main church space.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.17

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Court yard before the entrance. Entrance on right side, passage from main street. From the photos, the roof cantiliver out cast shadow on the entrance.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.19 [2] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.97 [3] Ibid p.102

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church Entrance, working as transitional space between the exterior and interior.

Wood frame wall and window allowing light come into the space.

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[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.68 [2] Ibid p.69 [3] Ibid

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Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Through the entrance, the low ceiling starts to compress the space. It is like cloud floating above.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.28

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Looking back to the entrance.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.69

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Triple height space in the church, light comes from a horizontal window and bounced on the curving roof.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.60 [2] Ibid, p.65

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Similar view but with people and activity.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.88

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Moving north side in the plan and View to the pipe organ.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.26

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Moving a little bit to east side in the plan, the ceiling hanging down.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.62

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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On the bcakside of the church is the sacristy room, It was used as conffession room before but now is changing cloth and keeping holy objects.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.30

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Moving to the side of the church is the corridor and stairs to second floor.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.64 [2] Ibid, p.66

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Second floor looking through the corridor into lower level. Jan Utzon in the picture.

[1] Photo Credit: http://architectureau.com/articles/utzon-pilgrimage-bagsvaerd-church/ [2] Ibid

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Going around, there is one passage on second floor connect north and south corridor.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.86

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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From the passage looking up to the roof. This is the end of public goal-route.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.1

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Then starts the goal-route for the community and administrators.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.2

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Different entrances from the main entrance to church.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.104

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

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Look into the courtyard before entering the building

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.104

Goal-route

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Bagsvaerd Church

Corridors seperate the church part from other programs

Figure. 1 [1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.73

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View in the waiting room. The table and chairs are designed by Alvar Aalto.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.105 [2] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.39

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Side corridor with skylight.

Figure. 1 [1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.72

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Corridor

Figure. 1 [1] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/160390/ad-classics-bagsvaerd-church-jorn-utzon

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Left side of corridor is multi-function room,(canidates room) changed to wood ceiling because acoustic reason. Third photo shows artificial light on the curving wood ceiling.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.155 [2] Ibid, p.154

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Right side of corridor is the parish hall for community. Its roof curved in another direction.

[1] Photo Credit: Yukio Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 , p.38

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Garden near the north side entrance.

[1] Photo Credit: Torsten Blondal, Jorn Utzon Logbook: v. 2: Bagsvard Church, p.106 [2] Ibid, p.109

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Office on the corner facing to the courtyard.

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[1] Photo Credit: http://architectureau.com/articles/utzon-pilgrimage-bagsvaerd-church/

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Columns are set on 2.2 meter square grid.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 39

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Build up wood formwork.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 44 [2] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 43 [3] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 43 [4] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 43

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Build up steel bars.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 43

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Cast in place.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 47

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Remove wood formworks when the concrete can support itself.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 49 [2] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 49

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Install roofs.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 50

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Concrete flooring is laid out, with the hallways getting paneled flooring.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 96

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2.2m x 2.2m concrete column module is implemented, beams go in between the columns.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 65 [2] Photo Credit: http://www.flickriver.com/search/Utzon+J%C3%B8rn+architect/

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-Precast concrete panels are added to the exterior of the building. There are two types: one of regular concrete, and the other with calcium oxide.

-Custom made 2.2 meter grid.

-Huge amount of building is prefabricated.

[1] Photo Credit: http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Church_at_Bagsvaerd.html/cid_1253805793_bagsvaerd_exterior_entrance.jpg

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The interior paneling is added. Also made of concre.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 83 [2] Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/5929371433

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The curved ceiling is created through a steel meshed frame, and covered with shuttering - you can see it in the left side picture - of very narrow rough laths so that you can form those tight curve.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 44 [2] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 27

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These are the exterior roofs, which have two direction.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 167

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The ceiling is composed of thin board-formed concrete shells, which span 63ft 8in between the two perimeter aisles and support the external metal roof.

[1] Photo Credit: http://www.archdaily.com/793424/studying-the-manual-of-section-architectures-most-intriguing-drawing/57b42afbe58ece7dc10001c2-studying-the-manual-of-section-architectures-most-intriguing-drawing-photo

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-The structural relationship between the ceiling and roof inverts the typical hierarchy.

-Supported by interior and sitting on interior roof.

-Useful to allow sky light to come through, but you cannot actually see the opennings.

-Also puts insulation between.

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36x2 .2=79.2m

10x2 .2=22m

2 .2m

2 .2m

The geometry was developed through a grid and defined courtyard space by use of a module. This module was essential due to the limited number of materials and adheres to an industrial context. Characterizing the structure and appearance of the church the module is a clear 2.20m by 2.20m square, which is repeated ten times widthways and thirty-six times lengthways.

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36x2 .2=79.2m

10x2 .2=22m

2 .2m

2 .2m

x

2x

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36x2 .2=79.2m

10x2 .2=22m

2 .2m

2 .2m

x x

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The skylit hallways serve as dividers for the different programs existing within the building, working together with the gridded columns that provide the structure.

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The designs of Bagsvaerd church and Sydney opera house should have some similarities in geometry.

They all use lots of circles and spheres as their basic design elements.

Figure.1 [1] Photo Credit: Sydney National Opera House (the Yellow Book) (1962)

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The centers of 7 arcs are located in the axises.

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And another 7 arcs are tangent with axises.

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Varying interior roof’s heights and exterior roofs’ directions reflects the space in hierarch.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 110-111

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The prototype of its stair-stepping facades should come from the firewalls of traditional architecture in southern China.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 128-129 [2] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 128-129

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Figure.2 [1] Photo Credit: https://tuchong.com/366758/6063194/#image6109314 [2] Photo Credit: https://tuchong.com/366758/6063194/#image6109314 [3] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 75

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vertical

x 2x 10x horizontal

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In some places the materials are left exposed while in others there may be c ladding of white tiles which would be applied ten units widthways to match up with the overall module.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 90 [2) Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 120-121

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The variety of facade’s materials hints the shape of interior roof.

[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 120-121 [2] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 129

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The curved, smooth, and expressive ceiling highly contrasts with the rational, rigid, and hard design logic as well as the concrete-based.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 124

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Figure.2 [1] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 132 [2] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 132 [3] Photo Credit: Jorn Utzon, Jorn Utzon Logbook-Bagsverd Church. P. 132

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Utzon captured his inspiration for the church from the vast sandy beach on one of the Hawaiian islands Oahu. He said: It’s a natural space that gives a profound spiritual peace, and spiritual peace is just what it is.

So he turned the nature that carrying the spiritual peace into the body of the church.

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[1] Photo Credit: https://lunanista.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/north-beach-clouds-hawaii.jpg [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 53

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Three sketches describe the transformation from the clouds into the ceiling of the church.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 53 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 54 [3] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 56

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From inspiration to reality.

[1] Photo Credit: https://lunanista.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/north-beach-clouds-hawaii.jpg [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 53 [3] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 88-89

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Where the facades connect to the ground, the tiles are matte. Where the tiles are connected to the sky, the tiles are reflective. The church is fading upward.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 90-91 [2] Photo Credit: Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 / Jørn Utzon, p 40 [3] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 98

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Because of the color of the sky, the glass roof reads as object from outside.

But it reads as nothing but sky from inside.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 106 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 74

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The concrete corridor structures in bagsvaerd Church also suggest the chunky post and beam systems of Chinese timber construction. [3]

[1]-[2] Photo Credit: Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture , p 295 [3] Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture , p 295

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Utzon wanted the ceiling is not only designed but also is built. You can tell what is support and what doesn’t. The sense of the floating roof.

[1] Photo Credit: Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 / Jørn Utzon, p 12 [2] Photot Credit: Futagawa, Church at Bagsvaerd, near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1973-76 / Jørn Utzon, p 19

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The way Utzon fix the window is similar to the Can Lis house.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 80-81 [2] Photo Credit: https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3048/2931531314_0b1493e80a_b.jpg

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Handrail details. Where hands touch are smooth.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 77 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 78

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Wood Details.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 75 [2]-[3] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 145

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The reredos was designed as a triangulated screen of thin, white-painted Flensborg bricks, which the congregation have happily interpreted as a symbol of the Trinity. It also serves as the visual barrier between the main church space and the sacristy.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 141 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 153 [3] Photo Credit: Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture, p 292-293

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Utzon’s daughter Lin designed the fabric’s pattern of the church. The main inspiration comes from the lodestar.

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 150 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 150 [3]-[4] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 146-147

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[1] Photo Credit: Weston, Utzon: inspiration, vision, architecture, p 296-297

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Acoustic test for the ceiling shape.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 144 [2] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 153

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The vault in Basvaerd Church mediate the men on earth and the God in Haven. [4] It also worked out structurally. And it fulfilled the requirement for the sound.

[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 66 [2] Photo Credit: Lewis, Manual of section, p 78-79 [3] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 153 [4] Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 156

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[1] Photo Credit: Jørn Utzon Logbook VOL. II, p 84-85 [2] Photo Credit: http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/u/fotos/utzon.jpg

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