Meaning and Material Towards a Multidisciplinary Assessment of Post-War Church Roofs in a Context of Adaptive Reuse KU Leuven
In the 1960s, massive suburbanisation and religious renewal let to a new type of church building: an open and informal space that could be erected quickly and cheaply. Novel building materials and construction methods were employed to this end (e.g. laminated timber beams, pre-stressed concrete beams or steel ‘space frames’), and often left exposed as an explicit token of modernity. Thus, the roof (structure) became the signature element of ...