Gabriel Loire - Berlin - Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche
Berlin
Artist : Gabriel Loire
Type of buildings : Religious building
Date : 1960 - 1963
Architect : Egon Eiermann
Technical : Dalle of glass
Church designed by architect Egon Eiermann consists of 4 parts: The octagonal spacecraft and "Home" in the West, the new Allen-Bell Tower and the Chapel "Island of churches" in the East.
The translucent walls are the work of Gabriel Loire it is slabs glasses implemented by crimping in a net of concrete.
The new Allen-Bell Tower has a diameter of 12 m to 53.5 m high on its roof a golden cross 1.8 m attached to the top of a mast 5.3 m, consists of single wall screen walls in concrete louvers (4704 in total), leaving filter the sound of bells.
The octagonal vessel measures 35 meters in diameter and a height of 20.5 m, designed with a system claustras concrete double wall. Between the inner and outer walls of an empty space of 2,70m wide contributes to soundproofing.
The inner wall has a screen wall panel 56 (7 X 7) Lens elements against 25 (5 × 5) to the outside.
Unlike the outer compartments of approximately square format, the inner compartments are arranged standing rectangles which by their shape as much as by their fine mesh, give the interior a certain lightness while making it seem higher.
For the walls of the octagonal spaceship and the new tower, are employed in total 21,292 tiles of colored glass, each implemented in concrete trellises which has a thickness of 24 mm.
2183 m²
Gabriel LOIRE
(1904-1996)
