Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design’s Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Tokyo — nicknamed the Rainbow Bank — is what one might call an instant architectural icon. Since the project finished construction in 2011, its facade of polychromatic, shifting planes, which seemingly dematerialize the volume within, has made the bank a landmark in Tokyo’s Shimura neighborhood (as …Continue Reading
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Japanese Cultural Center of D.R. Congo / Beijing Matsubara and Architects
Architects: Beijing Matsubara and Architects
Location: Gombe, Kinshasa, Congo
Architects In Charge: Hironori Matsubara, Yoko Tatemoto
Construction: ACADEX local volunteer’s construction team
Client: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan
Area: 271 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Tokyo Matsubara and Architects
This building has built by “grass-root grant aid fund” of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) in area of Gombe Institute of Pedagogique, the center part of Kinshasa city, D.R. Congo.
The plan is 19m ×19m and single story building. Semi-exterior penetrates the building and connects different rooms– training hall, classroom, office, tea ceremony room etc.
We built 43 sheets of RC wall-pillars (210mm of thickness, 2420mm of height, and 1050mm of width) and join thm with beams in the top. These beams become the drainage in the rain season. The wooden roof trussed with three different spans have same height.
A semi-exterior corridor and the outside courtyard will become the important environmental buffer and the place where people gather in the dry season. This building looks simple from outside, however the inside space has more complicated impression because the interior and exterior space are coexiting.
This building was built with small scale of governmental budget ( 10 million Japanese Yen) and by non-professional workers, so that the building has open and tolerant atomosphere.
Japanese Cultural Center of D.R. Congo / Beijing Matsubara and Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 May 2013.
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‘MonsterScape’ Exhibit / Hannat Architects
‘MonsterScape’, an exhibition display design for Monster Exhibition 2013 organized by Recover & Rebuild Japanese art & design, was a concept created by Hannat Architects to exhibit monsters as a metaphor of disaster and to prevent people’s consciousness of disaster from diminishing. On display this past February, the organizer of the event wanted this exhibition to be something not to tell the misery of disaster but to recall “important things” that tend to be forgotten in everyday life, and visitors to enjoy art and design. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Danger of the disasters always hid behind, and the tsunami let scenery of the coast of Tohoku area undergo a complete change. The concept of this exhibition design is to create impressive landscape where monsters/disasters lie in. Using three-dimensional CAD, the lattice form skeleton structure, of which motif was mountains and waves, was made by corrugated cardboard and covered with the paper skin made of innumerable tetrahedrons. As soon as the skeleton was covered with the paper skin as if to be covered with fur, its appearance metamorphoses into a monster with display functions.
The art works put on the top of the tetrahedron erase the existence of gravity and gives a mysterious sense. Since ceramic and metal art works were expected, experiments were repeated beforehand and tolerable strength to weight with paper was achieved. The two structures, a male and female, were placed in the center of 10m x 13m x 3m high space to surround a whirlpool and created display lines of flow. People are led to the space by the specific figure and drift to the internal space while appreciating the display works.
Behind the display structure, a picture installation, 3.11 Sendai Map, by anno lab and infographics, Datascape of Disaster, by Sendai School of Design (SSD) were lined up. 3.11 Sendai Map shows photos of Sendai City taken right after 3.11 and the heights of tsunami by putting a hand on a detailed city model of Sendai and a map of the Coast of Tohoku. Datascape of Disaster conveys the earthquake disaster data, which is generally hard to understand, in graphic more clearly. These came all true from the thought “to have people enjoy art, and to want them to think about the earthquake disaster only a little last” of the organizer.
The paper folding tetrahedron became approximately 10,000, and this was accomplished by the cooperation of many volunteers. Enormous time and labor were spent on folding origami by hand. The exhibition called out a total of approximately 6,000 people in six days. It is the first this time, but the organizer is going to continue such a trial.
Architects: Hannat Architects
Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Design: Yosuke Hoshina, Risa Tsutsumi
Collaborators: Sendai School of Design (Datascape); anno lab (3.11 Sendai Map)Client: Recover & Rebuild Japanese art & design
Use: Exhibition
Structure, Materials: Corrugated Cardboard, Copying Paper
Area: 120 square meters
Holding Period: February in 2013
'MonsterScape' Exhibit / Hannat Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 May 2013.
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Bewitching Photos Of Empty Tokyo “Highways”
At the epicenter of the world’s largest urban area, Tokyo is synonymous with density—an overflux of people, spaces, and ideas. Upending the general take of Tokyo as an urban over-stimulant, photographer Gabriel de la Chapelle has captured a novel, arresting view of the city as desolate landscape in his series, Tokyo End. His images are achingly captivating, showing empty stretches of urban infrastructure. Upon closer inspection, the empty “highways” are in fact canals with road striping superimposed. With not a soul in view, these impossibly beautiful images offer an intimate (if inaccessible) window onto the city. Click through to see them all.
Program A Pulsing Tokyo Light Show With Your Keyboard
As the center of all things bright and blinking, Tokyo gets a fitting tribute in a new marketing campaign by creative director Tsubasa Oyagi. The project, a website called Tokyo City Symphony, invites users to DJ their own light shows, which are projected onto a 3D model of the city. If you’ve ever eyed Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Mori Tower and thought its roof looks a little like cat ears, now’s your chance to turn it into a wide-eyed green feline. Or perhaps you’d prefer a silvery urban dystopia along the lines of Blade Runner? They have that too! Read more.
Oyagi’s campaign marks the tenth anniversary of Roppongi Hills, one of Japan’s biggest property developments (of which Mori Tower is a centerpiece). Visitors to the website can type along to an electronic sound track and watch as their keystrokes light up the skyline. The three themes (Future City, Rock City, and Edo City) offer different palettes. The max recording time is eight seconds, and you can share your mini-symphonies on social media, like Vine clips on an urban scale.
To make this new toy, Oyagi built a painstaking 1:1000 scale model of Tokyo. The lighting designs at your fingertips are actually made up of more than 1,000 pre-shot projections on the model. This dazzling alphabet looks like the makings of a great cipher. Why use text for your spy secrets when you can communicate by light show?
The scale model of Tokyo.
[via CreativeReview]
Kadokeshi / +S/Shintaro Matsushita+Takashi Suzuki
Architects: +S/Shintaro Matsushita+Takashi Suzuki
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Architects: Shintaro Matsushita, Takashi Suzuki
Construction: Miki Construction Company
Area: 110 sqm
Photographs: Hiroyuki Hirai
The high-density business district in Tokyo where a skyscraper and collective housing are built. The site is also overlooked by the apartment of 10 floors and is under the severe condition that the building of 7 floors takes up south. However, it was likely to be responded to positively that it is a corner lot along which the road of 6M passes along east and the road (it may be better for this to call it an alley) of 3M passes north.
At the alley of the north, it is mixed with a high-rise building and dotted also with the building not more than 10M. This is the result of density growth urban planning. The volume of the house was determined in the form belonging to the latter “10M Scale” in consideration of the program demanded and restriction of urban planning.
The next theme is “lives comfortably, securing privacy in a city” in the volume.Since the site was a corner lot, the countless window was prepared in the corner of the building which can gain a “view.” The window size is variously larger than usual, and the degree and density are increasing, so that they approach a corner. A city and interior space melt together and a boundary is lost.
Simultaneously, the scale of space, an interior material, and a detail are also going to use a city scale, and make it a city is not only open, but conscious of “it lives in a city.” In the environment which is not good, a tough and pure house is likely to praise a family’s courage and is likely to carry expectation on the back.
Kadokeshi / +S/Shintaro Matsushita+Takashi Suzuki originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 23 Apr 2013.
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NN House / Kozo Yamamoto
Architects: Kozo Yamamoto
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Structural Engineer: a・s・t atelier
Contractor: B・L home
Area: 61.59 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Koichi Torimura
This single-family house is located on a site in a commercial area near a main road in Tokyo. Height restriction of the area is not strict therefore it is surrounded by buildings with various heights. The site is sandwiched between old two- storey house and five-storey apartment building. Our client requested us to design an ‘open’ house in this densely populated environment.
In order to avoid unnecessary exposure to public view, we interpret this site condition as a sort of ‘natural’ condition specific to the site. Standing on the empty lot and carefully observing ‘open’ spots around it, we begin to naturally envision the best location for courtyard and roof terrace, which are two important elements requested by the client. Bedrooms are located on the first floor, Living/Dining/Kitchen space on the second floor and loft space above kitchen. Locations of all openings are carefully worked out in section, so that they can open up towards the ‘open’ spots. Heights and locations of walls around courtyard and roof terrace are designed according to various specific factors of the site.
In view of exterior factor we considered location of windows of surrounding buildings, location of the roof, and height from the ground. And in view of interior factors we considered view from inside, natural light, roof, ceiling inclination. We make sure that openings are placed at appropriate height and location so that they can open up the house towards outside while keeping privacy. Space and form of the house are decided in accordance with the client’s requests and the surrounding ‘nature’, without any arbitrary reasons. Walls are colored in black and white; basically exterior walls are painted black and interior walls white. And in some areas white interior walls extend outwards and meet black exterior walls, and in some areas white interior volumes are made visible from outside.
NN House / Kozo Yamamoto originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 13 Apr 2013.
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Mark Magazine #43
Just arrived to ArchDaily, Mark Magazine #43. New museums keep popping up in the USA. Farshid Moussavi’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Zaha Hadid’s Broad Art Museum in East Lansing and Morphosis’s Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. In the Netherlands, Ector Hoogstad gave Eindhoven University of Technology a new library and Powerhouse Company added an impressive villa to their growing portfolio. On the eve of the launch of his new feature film, Oblivion, director Joseph Kosinski talks about his background in architecture. Finally, we checked out Zhujiajiao, near Shanghai, where Atelier FCJZ, Atelier Deshaus and Mada s.p.a.m. realised a milestone in China’s urban development, thanks to the reintroduction of a small-scale methodology coupled with respect for local identity.
You can also found in ArchDaily projects that Mark #43 offers in depth, such as:
- Urban Collage / Edouard François
- The Studio / Branch Studio Architects
- Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry / Chartier-Corbasson Architects
- Cultural Center of EU Space Technologies / Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti + SADAR + VUGA + OFIS architects + Bevk Perovic Arhitekti
- La Tallera / Frida Escobedo
- Fast Track / Salto AB
- ICD / ITKE Research Pavilion / University of Stuttgart
- Festival Hall in Erl / Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
- Black Teahouse / A1Architects
- Academie MWD Dilbeek / Carlos Arroyo
- Glass Farm / MVRDV
- MOCA / Farshid Moussavi
- Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum / Zaha Hadid Architects
- Perot Museum of Nature and Science / Morphosis
- MetaForum / Ector Hoogstad Architecten
- Butaro Hospital / MASS Design Group
CONTENTS
Cross Section:
New work by: Maison Édouard François
Branch Studio Architects
Chartier-Corbasson
brendon Chung
University of Colorado students
Frida Escobedo
Salto
EDH Endoh Design House
ICD|ITKE
Delugan Meissl
John Lin A1 Architects
Carlos Arroyo Architects
Suppose Design
Joseph Giovannini
MVRDV
Perspective: USA
- Farshid Moussavi Architecture: In Cleveland, Farshid Moussavi’s museum evokes the spirit of contemporary art.
- Zaha Hadid Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects creates an icon for Michigan State University.
- Morphosis: The first museum by Morphosis is the latest jewel in Dallas’s crown.
Long Section:
- Ector Hoogstad Architecten: Eindhoven. An old industrial hall at Eindhoven University of Tecnology has been given a new lease on life.
- Sou Fujimoto: Tokyo. On a site bordered by development, Sou Fujimoto designed a house with a pitchen roof… garden.
- Mass Design Group: Boston. Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks improve healthcare with little means.
- Gary Marinko: Perth. Gary Marinko’s house in Perth doubles as a luminaire.
- Joseph Kosinski: Los Angeles. Prior to his career in film, director Jospeph Kosinski studied architecture, a discpline he uses in his new movie, Oblivion.
- Powerhouse Company: Utrecht. Life in Powerhouse Company’s latest villa takes place on platforms that seem to float in midair.
- Augustin und Frank: Berlin. Each new project gives Ute Frank and Georg Augustin a chance to reinvent themselves.
- Atelier FCJZ | Atelier Deshaus Mada s.p.a.m. Zhujiajiao. The Shangduli Leisure Plaza in Zhujiajiao represents a milestone in recent Chinese urban development.
- Deyan Sudjic. Deyan Sudjic talks about blogging, editing and Italian writers.
