DESIGN PROCESS OF MEMORIAL CATHEDRAL FOR WORLD PEACE (1954), HIROSHIMA BY TOGO MURANO (PART 2): FORMAL MANIPULATIONS OBSERVED IN THE DESIGN OF XAVIER HALL (1949)

Xavier Hall was a timber structured building for auditorium and believers’ hall designed by Togo Murano Architect Office, built in 1949 the property of Nobori-cho Catholic Church Hiroshima, widely known as “Memorial Cathedral World Peace.” The is important inquiring design process Cathedral, because it had fundamental influence on site-composition religious complex whole. In this paper, based chronological order sketches drawings relevant to hall, morphological analysis performed through three problem-solving studies reveal architect’s thinking strategy.