Excursion: Day Three - Bonus Night

After we returned to the hotel, Some of the students decided to go with me to another building; the Herz Jesu Kirche.  The church was having a free concert of some of Bach's organ pieces, and so we got to both experience the church visually and acoustically.

The church is very contemporary, basically a wooden box inside a glass box.  The delight is in the details and the transformation.  While the glass box starts out as transparent, it gradually becomes more and more opaque along the length of the church.  Conversely, the wooden box is louvred, and these louvres go from closed to open as they progress.  So the two reverse dissolve into each other.

The large blue glass wall at the entry is actually a set of huge doors, which get opened in the evening in good weather.  Unfortunately, it was rainy when we were there, so no big doors swinging open for us.

Blue glass wall?  Not really.  Actually it is glass covered in a screened image of blue carpenters nails, positives on the outside and reversed (clear nails in blue field) on the inside.  A modern interpretation of stained glass!