Meaning and Material. Towards a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Post-War Church Roofs in a Context of Adaptive Reuse. KU Leuven
In the 1960s church building boom, novel building materials and construction methods were largely used. Laminated timber, prestressed concrete or steel ‘space frames’ allowed for large, open spaces and were often left exposed as an explicit token of modernity. Today, where the future of church buildings increasingly depends on their potential to accommodate new uses, the stability and energy performance of their roof structures is often ...