长崎 Agri 高原酒店婚礼小教堂，日本

设计公司: 百枝优建筑事务所/ Momoeda Yu Architecture Office（日本）

当人们步入日本“长崎Agri 高原酒店”的婚礼小教堂，众人目光必然被复杂的空间桁架所吸引。在结构上，木制的柱子支撑着教堂的屋顶和三角穹圆顶，令人联想到大浦天主堂的尖拱及拱门；据说，长崎的大浦天主堂是全日本最古老的教堂。支柱结构可分为三层：底层有四条支柱，每条分别延伸出八条对角分支，支撑起中层；中层有八条支柱，每条分别延伸出八条对角分支，支撑起上层；上层有十六条支柱，每条分别延伸出八条对角分支。整个结构形成至关重要的多边形桁架，合力撑起重达25吨的屋顶。桁架主要以木材制成，并以钢筋加固。教堂四面的巨型玻璃墙把自然光引进来；加上室内开放式的设计，室外的自然景观一览无遗。当爱侣在其下许下誓言及交换戒指，昵称“森林之约”的几何形桁架，便俨如出自神明之手的大自然杰作。受到祝福的情侣在这迷人的地方举行婚礼，必会成为他们毕身难忘的回忆。

As people enter the Nagasaki Aguri no Oka Kogen Hotel’s wedding chapel in Nagasaki, Japan, their eyeballs will assuredly be riveted by its intricate space frame truss work. Structurally, the arboreal pillars support the chapel’s roof and pendentive dome, but they also evoke the pointed arches and rib vaults of the Oura Catholic Church, Nagasaki’s Roman Catholic Basilica, which is believed to be Japan’s oldest. There are three layers of pillars. The bottom layer consists of four pillars, and each of which branches out to form eight diagonal frames. Supported by the frames of the bottom layer, the middle layer consists of eight pillars,each of which branches out to form eight diagonal frames. The top layer is similarly supported by the layer of pillars and branches directly underneath it,and comprises sixteen pillars that branch out to form eight diagonal frames. The framework becomes the vital polygonal trusses that support the 25-tonne roof.Made mainly out of lumber, the frames are reinforced with steel rods. Immense glass walls on all four sides of the chapel brings natural lights in, and as the natural landscape is clearly visible throughout the open floor plan. The geometric truss work, nicknamed “the Forest of Oath”, under which wedding vows are made and rings are exchanged, appears to be a work of nature that could only be perfected by a divine hand. Blessed couples getting married in this mesmerising space will have many memorable moments to look back to.