Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, "Architecture is Environment"

good evening everyone it's a delight to have here tonight such wonderful architects Cassio's se Jima and Ryu a Nishizawa when thinking about the ways in which projects can be regarded as works on the architectural discipline it is useful to distinguish between those that involve paradigmatic transformations and those that are idiomatic elaborations on the repertoire it is exciting to do so since with the 20th century we witnessed so many developments in which architecture defied this distinction this dialectic and it is to this tradition that's the Jima and Nishizawa belong think about some of their paradigms of space the arrays and piles of cubes at the Kanazawa Museum for the 21st century the museum in New York the Murayama house these are indicative of a new type of discreteness and disaggregation the continuous and porous surfaces of the Rolex and the flower house just to mention to introduce the exterior as SS aura of a sort more interior than the thermal interior itself the exterior and those projects becomes the the highly reflective clover shaped surfaces at the serpentine and in the Toledo Museum projects like these rendered voids in space through reflection transforming them in ways we have not seen before and their work topologies are deployed with such sparse lists sparseness that they seem as much to do with matters of organizational irreducibility as with a mutinous that we might call a new white-on-white idiom indeed in their projects typology and its formal and material articulation are one in the same expression inseparable curiously when this happens and so many of their projects have to do with the space between as opposed to the space within or without the formal attributes seem exceedingly present and absent at the same time architecture both becomes conspicuous and disappears at the same time take the New York Museum which we all know so well where several of the classic white box galleries are forced to cede space to the exterior expression the pile of boxes white icon and the otherwise dark red and grey Bowery the museum appears to be made from the form of aggregated party wall tenements rotated on their side as if a redeployment of the ubiquitous urban morphology now occupies a void in the very same fabric but it is not only the boundary of spaces or the presence or absence of the surfaces that invert what we confront but the way we live in them that is at stake in their work session curated the 2010 Venice Biennale entitled people meet in architecture a visiting architectural theorists declared upon seeing the show that quote the architectural manifesto is dead it's all about social narrative now but in fact one of the boldest claims for session Manisha's always work has to do with their articulation of an architecture appropriate to the new digital world for people living in this interconnected age many theorists have remarked that they set up experiments in which the raw programme of the building is configured with an unusual relationship between through and within spaces using layers of reflection and transparency an experiment that lets us in the end see what people do in these spaces in this way dozens of types of spatial relationships and experiences are being created tested and the outcomes are unpredictable perhaps these experiments point point toward a manifesto or ideology rather than just a set of social narratives in any case I think it's fair to say that one of the sources of the power of their work is their engagement with a contemporary view that is difficult to pinpoint because we are within it they immerse us and it's so intensely and with their work both the paradigmatic and the idiomatic operations on the corpus of architecture are subsumed within this grand social experiment I'd like to turn now to thanking everyone who has been involved in working so tirelessly on the new innocence symposium sari lecture series about emerging contemporary architecture in Japan especially to thank the Japanese sorry the GSD Japan group the students that have worked so hard and who have established again before us tonight very important the donation table for the tsunami victims and I would like everyone just to reflect for a moment on on that but to jump back and remember that just before that we were in the pleasure of being so inspired by these works to return to that tonight and to remember and realize that you are with architects who have inspired you so much so many students have looked at the work of these architects in fact it is having a great impact all around the world I think and they are a paradigm of our time very significant this is a really wonderful occasion I am so pleased and I welcome please join me in welcoming our guest good afternoon thank you very much for inviting us here we are very happy to have a lecture tonight we came from Tokyo and in Tokyo there are three offices one is Hana is a collaborative of office me and mrs. Allah and one is my office and the third one is mrs. horn office and tonight we will explain ten project which including the three offices work and tonight we made that title the architecture is environment and every day we like we like to make architecture which make environment and also which have validation to the bigger environment and we hope today's our speech young-se mentioned you can understand what we try to do okay can you turn off the light thank you this is this is the first project that we can show today which is Kanazawa museum that we made several years ago in Kanazawa three the this is a project the the location of the this museum is very center of the Kanazawa city being surrounded by the city hall state ho in front and then they have a famous historical garden here and downtown behind and then there was a situation that everybody come from all around to the museum and we started thinking what kind of the how how the museum can create nice relation with the surrounding that Kanazawa city house and this is the shape that we gave the round shape for this museum with the full entrance gate which is opening to all different direction to invite people who coming from all around and we have a museum payzone here in the center of the circle and the having a public program around along the facade to allow people to come in without pay and that they can get in and go through and get out as they like and another thing that we did is the having the older exhibition rooms to be independent each other having a hallway corridor in between to connect them and this this independent the location over this green space gives very transparent feeling the people outside the museum can see through and they can see inside the museum they can see what's going on inside the museum and this is the variation of the exhibition spaces that we prepared to create kind of diversity for the exhibit space the older exhibitions pase had this is a section of these extra spaces we have a glass ceiling we have grass roof and Luba inside Luva and the fluorescent light inside a double glass layer to create very different light trician now we can create the very dark room and we also can create very bright room like outdoor space under the Sun and we gave the full patio like this on the border between free zone and museum zone so that the people in the museum zone and the public zone can see each other through the patio and this is the hallway where people can move from the room to the other room and this is the inside the box inside the exhibition space they they can appreciate sunlight coming inside the rooms and some of the people can do the mixture between the mixture the light with Florence artificial light and daylight and the way to use the space is a kind of a the best flexible the people they can use the space as an exhibit as a museum but not only as a museum but also they can do the workshop what consult and this is the follow to show the when they do the many different concert on using many different rooms so people can wonder they can go from the room to another room to join the different concert going together directory face to the public zone so sometime the museum change the entrance to the galleries on and depends on the show that sometime the curator use the whole galleries which is a biggest museums zone but sometimes divided two but this case is divided completely independently so the people the whole the inside the museum's on the the whole way become a free zone and so that means always the the exhibition define the museum zone and depends on the exhibition the pays on a free zone is moving changing this is the one of the patio that we have now you can see how the the exhibition box independent each other and then you can see through you can see the Kanazawa city and garden from the inside building and this patio is not just just some providing patio but also kind of outside the division space this patio has swimming pool the art project done by the Argentine artist this is kind of interesting the people staying in the free zone can come to the poolside and the people in the museum pays on-site can access to the bottom and then they can meet each other through the through the water and then this is another patio with the green sculpture done by the French artist and this is the local local plantation facade and then they had international international plantation facade on the other side and then we have many different program public program on the public public zone this is a lecture hall registrated in the public area free zone then artists people museum people can use the space for the reception or lecture or workshop and this is the library where kansas city people can come to stay to read the book and this is a children's workshop where the kids and artists can walk together and some of the artists come gay come out from the museum to do the the project this is one of the art project that the Japanese artist did to surround the building by the flower plantation it's a mourning flower and it's very interesting and we learned a lot after the completion because we spent us a lot of time to define the plan but the after that we realized the artist or the curator come developed father that means that because when we are making we are making this museum we leave it worried because we prepare the different type of proportional galleries but we are not sure it's enough or not but actually later we learned the gallery or the architecture itself is exhibited by the artist or the by using so sometimes the because this museum ground and sounded by the transparent glass so that means the artist found the maybe to wrap the morning flower with children and it's very convenient building to do that project I think and also sometimes a gallery looks small but sometimes galleries appear very big so it's a very interesting for us the architecture has the opportunity to be created by using and this is facade made with the curved transparent glass wall so people walking in the city can see what happening inside the museum this is very transparent transparency create very create museum very open to the city and then some of the artists do the project in the public area public area and the museum area kind of brand in each other we are trying to make realize the open museum open and transparent the museum where anybody everybody can come and enjoy to stay next EP a project which is located in Rosen switch around and it completed the the end of the 2009 and so the this is the existing campus and this project started just after the completion of a Kanazawa museum and we and then the university's people asked us to think about what which type of place is the space to learn new things or to think of to think the new thing and also the they want to the university want wanted to have a place which the student can gather together because that this university is very big and there's so many different department and there are no space people can sit together so which is the original idea is this open 24 hours but now I mean I think where we can in the evening we're close I think and we propose one big space like that this is a very reading drawing which made the composition there is the big campus EPFL and the site is in front of existing campus and also the university asked to invite to think about it to invite the people from the U this is a university laws and the university and also from the neighborhood and there is a beautiful lake so also expected from building people can't see the lake and we studied different typology but the end we thought maybe it's better to have with a one-story building because of the is a space for people come and to meet and to learn to is a discussed in that to be able to speak and but the same time the canasa of the size is like this and we knew that even we try to make the open to the every direction still if we make just one storey building people can touch only the edge of the building and also we didn't want to make a building just avoid people because this is the in front of the existing campus so we like to have some in continuity the people from the city come to go to this existing campus then we found the idea to bring the summer slab higher and so then I think the people come pass under the this building and the can go too smoothly to the existing campus at the same time also people have a very big opportunity just to enter this building so that this is the Daigo diagram so we made the four shells so that everywhere people come to this building people can easily to arrive the center of the building note edge of the building and to enter this building but the same time also can pass through that to the another direction of the existing campus and also if you stand in front of this building this is a big building but still you can see that exist it's not avoid the build to see the existing campus and you can see both together both the existing campus and also the interior of this building so this is the model photo and you if was the people enter the center of the arrive the center of the building you can go to where you want to and this is the interior model photo that there are Hills is a shell under the under the so you can pass to the existing campus but also the shell divided the field and so this is that section diagram so this move around 6 meter and then naturally you you will be invited the highest place and you can see the lake even from the back you can see the lake through the big courtyard and normally the interior Katya the courtyard is completely like this that surrounded by the interior space which is the outside but it's actually a little bit far from the real outside and this called this type of coat is sometimes very nice have a very calm space but the same time a little bit isolated so but this type of courtyard easily to connect interior but the same time also directly to connect to the real outside which is this case is a neighborhood or the existing campus and this is the study model of the structure the model is a really strange but the biggest span is 80 meter and the 80 centimeter concrete span fly and there are two here's one big hill and a small hill divide three zones and this big hill move to the center at the back the back is faced to the existing campus and this divided the three zones and if you go if this the this is a one biggest character of this building is if you enter here and then you go up the small here you can see that this the lower area but you because of the ceiling comes down the ceiling mobile parallel be with the floor so that means the ceiling cut your view so which means that this interior space is a huge wonderful space but you cannot see that each of the building always that you can see the only continuity but no edge and according your move event the space appear in around you so this is a I think that we always try to find some relation between the interior and exterior and also we like to make a new type of space and this case is a huge random space but he always some intimate space appear around you and from now we will quickly show that our process this is a computer the the structure engineer is a Sasaki and the Suzuki made a new system for this type of structure and then we make a some scheme and the computer suggesters we must change this is more efficient but then there's some dialogue a lot of dialogue with computer and then the end so we make this and then the computer said you must change it is hope because hole helps to reduce the weight and also the height but computer suggests we must make higher but this makes the slope you become steep it's impossible so this is a lot of communication and the finally we decided shape and this showed us some example and then and then also the cotija the hole is a very strong relation to the structure but also to define soft reader spaces but also the from through the courtyard we take a natural penetration from the lake so that means also the sometimes the natural ventilation required us more bigger coated or the position and also so if we bring a lot of natural ventilation that we must care the speed so that makes also us to make us to change the position or a size and also the the daylight we have a lot of glass but a very role and huge plate so that means also looks very lot of glass bang boom scared also that daylight and this is the sound reduction analysis this is the most important one with the important thing is this is a very big volume space but also the Cotillard position and also the throw height works for the acoustic issues so that if you go to visit this the building the the restaurant or food court is very rowdy but if you move to the back that is which is a rivalry become very quiet so mean the position of the courtyard or the size or the height of the slab is all decided by the many technical aspect and this is a final plan so this is the entrance and so there is one place big flat place the food food court and the cafe and the awesome bookshop the bank and student office and to here's the one small hill there is auditorium and the big another hill the the restaurant the director see the lake also the the behind the open library and behind the big hill deli the research center and also the offices and some group work area and also the this is the main entrance but these works of the independent entrance directory to the auditorium or the food court or office or the the office for the student and this is more easy to understand but this is a long huge space and there are three zones softly connected by the hill and this is the this photo is just before the completion the this is the existing campus and from campus you can approach to the entrance hall and you see the library and if you stand the library you see also the lake and the beautiful mountain and this is the under the slope from the city you can come around come to here and then you can just pass through to the existing campus also there are a few entrances and you be invited to the to enter this building also you can see the interior situation this is the photo of the ceremony so sometimes the koteas is a kind of expansion of the entry interior space of course the Rosen is very cold so winter is very difficult but spring or summer people can expand the interior space too that this courtyard this is the entrance main entrance and there's a cafe and you see also already there's some here and then you go up to the library or you go up to the restaurant and if you walk up and you can see the group workspace and also the the bottom you see the research area and offices of interest and you see that these are the openings it's controlled by the computer so if temperature become higher and then this will open and get colder wind from the lake and then the highest press there are top light and this hot air be exhausted so so away and this is the open library and there's a restaurant and for Malaysia you see there also food court and you see another the small hill and this is the auditorium there are moveable door sometimes until the end we fight try to use the very heavy cotton but we couldn't win in the in the end the moveable world came this is all years for the 650 people this is the another push a very small temporary pavilion project that we made for serpentine gallery in in London this is the existing museum serpentine gallery with this small garden and that they are rated very in the center of the Hyde Park which is one of the biggest park in Norman and then they are doing the on your pablum project to invite the architect every summer to make to construct the summer pavilion which exists just some more time and two years ago we did this the small pavilion project a program that they asked us is a kind of simple they wanted to have just open space where people in the park can come and stay and they enjoy and the cafe and a small lecture space and they said they have a strong ring every day so we we found the idea just to create the roof with no whoa so that now there are beautiful existing tree inside the garden so we define the shape of a roof to avoid the existing tree and there's no wall to support the roof so that people can come from everywhere or around to they can come under the roof this is the roof which is made with aluminum plate supported by the bunch of the column the shape of the roof and height the scale define they along with the relation with the surrounding for instance this here they have big traffic with a big big truck or cause go driving so that we give we gave the very tall ceiling height which is around 60 Mira and the ceiling height getting it in low powers the the serpentine gallery the ceiling height here we have 6 Mira and they're getting it in law towards the window height and the finally is ceiling height becoming become very low like 60 60 centimeters something and we we don't have any beam to support the roof just many crumbs support aluminium plate yes period exceeding height getting it in law to create very low area this is where the adult people can't come only kids can stay you can see how the roof a boy the existing trees and some part we have partition to break the wind to protect the people here from the from the wind and then the ceiling reflect the ceiling reflect surround existing green like this so you can feel you are just had to say covered by the beautiful green like sometimes the landscape looking the other way the other way around and some part we prepared the chair for the people to stay or to the lecture when people come together the bunch of people were reflected on the ceiling and then people staying very far away in the park can recognize the there is some event going on under the roof this is the furrow looking from fall you see how the roof shining to attract people outside and this is another museum project that we made the last year in the small iron in the in the Japan nasi and then there's this this island has big mountain and then site is here just in the slope of the mountain with the beautiful typography and the beautiful nature and program the program that museum people asked us is kind of interesting because they said they were exhibit just one at peace and that they won't change the art forever so they asked us to think what kind of operation between art and environment and architecture can have with this situation and then this is the initial dial or diagram drawing that we made berry the beginning of design phase to tell the concept which is a water drop shape made with organic freeform Cove I thought this is a nice to create very enclosed one room for the odd and then this one this is also nice shape to fit to the organic typography that this area has there are some corner here but all the other part gold goes continuity like this and this water drop looking shape can't fit nicely in the topography this is nature they don't have any straight line all the shape they have as coving that's why we thought this kind of organic shape can be nice in the relation with the architectural nature and this is looking from the side the culture also going in this way to create just and this is the section drawing that I cut from the left to the right to show how the roof shape changing this is a kind of three-dimensional culture concrete to show structure to enclose the wrong room space under the structure this is the only one part that we have corner to invite people to come inside the way to construct the concrete shell that's kind of unusual we we made the first we made the soil Mountain for the for the moving we didn't use the formwork applied with foam work because shape is a kind of a complicated with complicated three-dimensional coke so we did the soil Mountain forced and and then did reinforcement we had and pour the concrete to create the three-dimensional shape and then because of the structure reason we couldn't have the joint in in the structure that's why they started pouring concrete from here studying the pouring concrete in the morning until next morning spending 22 or something this was a very long job and then finally this shape has been made you can see still there the the soil stays still stays inside the show the urban culture can be shared by the architecture and the nature they can share the exact readers same-same the line and then they hear inside a building to dig all the soil out to create the space this is the after the the oil all the soils has been gone this is the entrance this is the only one opening which is director Xu ated direct illustrated on the ground to invite people to come in and oh the other opening is kind of floating in the roof in the roof and that we didn't do any any the glass glass in broke glass enclosure to enclose this to leave all of them open to outside now this opening the bring wind rain inside the building this is one of the opening that people can see from inside outside the space are very much enclosed but this big opening gives open fearing to directly connect inside and outside and this is looking from outside through through inside to the the other side of the museum this two islands is sit very close to each other and there is a really tiny tema and there is also very tiny village inside and for example canals are museums sizes like this maybe EPFL is like this so that I mean the village is a kind of architecture size and before there were three thousand people who are living but now the fifty maybe actually that 30 people are living so that means that there are so many empty houses and then client like revitalized this village by art so we started to find the house that to lend and like to innovate from the old house to the galleries and we have found around 10 places the one here here and here and here and here and here so it takes a long time maybe more than 10 years but we tried to renovate the house to the gallery and they try to make small small village to some kind of a museum but because but a few years or maybe more than few years some houses were abundant so that I mean the conditions were so bad so sometimes it's impossible to use this existing structure that case we decided to bring the new structure but we try to keep all the materials as much as possible and this is the villages but we found some age of the villages and one place is in the village and so and we already did the three projects this is one and two and the rest place and three but two you know we could renovate and one is we bring the new structure which is Plexiglas and they always try to make a renovation but not only focused the building renovation but more try to make a renovation of the small area in this museum the it's not it's a temporary theory so the sometimes every two three years the art also were changed so our aim is gradually change the existing village scenery but not big but try to change slightly and sometimes the also you can see the different art but so that it's a very special tree so we we mean the client and I and we and also the curator agreed each other decided each other to make a transparent galleries and always you can see the art with the surroundings and this is the first place and there is a tiny shrine that this island is a famous of the stone and this a small shrine for the stone God and the site is a just suit of the small stone shrine and so this is the old house but we took I took we took away the older the bracing and make empty dome and instead because we need bracing so that we are the two koteas to works for the earthquake so this is the old house and we kept the old structure and also the roof Natalia's and this is the we moved it to the center and they use the older roof and also the structure and take away the all the small walls to make MPTV airy and this is the shrine and you see the very transparent Gary and these two courtiers works as an earthquake for the earthquake and so these are the older structure and the bring the new material for the finishings but try to make a some similar color try to find a similar color and for us with this building is Luke's old but Luke's new and you can enter also the courtyard this is the one of the courtyard and then moved to the close to the village itself and you see the the escape and then there is a future site and you come down to this side and there are a place to be able to make new to galleries that already the condition was so bad so that we broke we took away the dust maybe these two will be made by the aluminum so that I mean you close to this and then the aluminum reflector surrounding also that you can enter the gallery and then the galleries interior wall will be made by aluminum which is surrounding the scenery come to the inside and you see the art with the existing the scenery and then next place is that this is that this place is between the two-month the small mountain the very Delhi's thing in the road and along the road we make that gallery is made by Plexiglas it's completely transparent the gallery and there is along the road and there is another will be this become next faith and this already will be made and then to show the art but if you see the art always you see together with the daily daily lifestyle life they they life an existing scenery this is the interior now the art is inside that I don't have the photo and always you see the art with existing the scenery and then the next place is a rest place is a highest place of this small village and then this made by the aluminium and then this is the next phase project we can use this the older structure all days they say this house was used by the richest people so the structure is very beautiful so try to make to show the existing materials as much as possible and then the last one is that this and this already with innovated we made a two big windows which penetrated this side and this side you can see each other and so the older galleries is a very transparent and always a you see the art with existing the condition which is our aim and try to make space where sometimes the people feel to come to the museum but also that just feel to visit villages this is a small small house project built in the center of the city and the recently the issue of what kind of relation between architecture and the surroundings can be made this is becoming becoming becoming pretty important issue for us and then I thought that even for the house it's nice to have open feeling for the people to live in the pretty tensed city area and this is the house we did together with the wooden naval wooden construction house neighbors here and here the site is very long in the south north north south direction then the way of the project is we lined up each rooms required in a way that they they are shifted like this to create small gap in between them this gap gives the sunlight and wind to the each rooms and another thing that we did is we gave the very tall ceiling height for each rooms for more avoid feeling and then the some of the roof can be moveable so that rooms when you open up the roof on the window the room became become kind of semi indoor/outdoor patio feeling and then by shifting the boxes this small patios made outside of the house and this is the photo looking from the outside through inside this is very transparent feelings is made through the property and each rooms has their own independent dimension and a different dimension booked rooms meet like this to create the gap to provide the daylight inside and each room has a big window and when you open up the window the wind start moving through outside through the inside and you can feel the environment where you are living and the read that translucent screen to soft read abide inside to get transparent feeling and then to get a little bit divided feeling inside the house now this is another approach another small very small house project that we are now working on in the comic Rossi Kamakura City is the very famous with the story culture history and the nature and then two people young couple both this small property just in front of the local station and then they program that they were hobbies house and the artists shop and the tree because wife his artist she wanted to live here and to do the shop but problem is that the site is really small and then come across city requires us to have big setback to create open space around and then small property becomes even more small and then we can have just 60 60 square meter or something which is really small for the house and shop and now we are working on the China gift Styles project in China this has a hundred one thousand square meter for just three people so sixty meters 60 square meter for two couple for house and the shop is really small but I I found I realized that this smallness and the density can be interesting to create a special special house the idea is this is the concept model that to tell the idea I gave the structure unit like this table looking unit made with the floor and four legs we this each each structure unit has program the program and and the structure unit correspond each other and then they come up together to create this kind of the mountain landscape and this they are they are stacked like this way this way the gives the inside space and outside space on every table top so they all the space kind of connected but kind of divided but the older space can directly get out from from the each room to outside and a space that we and I gave the a tree a shop program on the ground and program getting it in private as they go up we have kitchen dining living bathroom and the utility and the bedroom and top but the older space has direct access to the outside this is the model drawing computer graphics model drawing looking from the side by shifting all of them so many crumbs happened inside the building to give even more density a feeling inside the building and also two more three more project what we are doing and this is the small Museum in Tokyo downtown and the size is 300 thousand square feet and because of the for the Japanese the wiki is that hate that natural right so that we don't we cannot make a windows of course also the downtown scale is not so big scale so we try to divide the big volume to the smaller body but also this and next project we try to make more because sometimes we make we consider relation to the outside but or sometimes only the inside but we like to more the interior relation and the exterior relation makes one shape together so that this is what we're trying now and this is the site so that you see the different small building around and so that this is not just books to connect the depend on the floor the sometimes the big afro or sometimes smaller floor so the every floor change the shape and and using that the sweet we can bring the some connection between inside and outside and this is the section and the ground floor is a entrance to the museum and then this is also some sweet to see the outside and then so this is the so the basically the completely the mass podium but sometimes some part connectives sometimes we've divided and then to make some shape and next one also the small public building is located at suburbia of the Tokyo and this is a small library with some public functions and so the also surrounding that the two stories the houses and then we divide ground for the public program to few podiums and try to keep the outside the strong around the rooms but gradually become a one-volume and the top floor become a one bigger space for the library and the shape is like this in this case also the the upper part to become a bigger body Monroe apart is a smaller volume this is the last last project that we can show today which is Louisville Louisville Museum in the countryside of France the liberal use iam in Paris is decided to make second museum in this city which is called the lawns this is the city one hour one hour far away from Paris and this city lawns City used to be famous with the coal mining industry but they now they stopped doing the coal mining industry and then they lost industry that and then that's why the France French government and lugu museum people decide to bring the museum program to this city to revitalize the this town the site of the this museum is here they have a little hill in the middle of the three middle of the town and this became the project site the site has a very unique topography like this the program that they provide is quite big with the forty thousand square meter in total so referred to forty thousand square meter box is too big to fit to this site so one of our idea is to break this program break down into several different pieces to get even more smaller feeling that this smaller pavilion scale can fit nicely into this topography we thought there are some small line which you use for the late way what tell is the hole or some other line so the this is we made the software cup to each space try to have a good relation to the existing things that this is a floor plan we have the very open entrance for you here with many small program and here we have a temporary gallery and permanent gallery here and the people walking in this Hill can go through the building this is the elevation that we are thinking the transparent part and opaque pot opaque parties may will be made with the shiny aluminum Assad and this is the entrance foyer which is totally transparent and we have we have skylight to keep to give sunlight to the exhibition space the collection of the Louvre is very huge starting from the the four thousand before Christ until the 19th century so that we gave the very long proportion for the Egyptian space to show the art collection on along with the time line so people can start with the ancient prehistory sculpture and then they can rise up along the history finally to go up to the modern 19th century they can feel how the European history has been changing through the they can feel the history went through the art collection and then also they can see all the different odd collection altogether people can also feel continuity to the current the contemporary time mean that they want to they don't want to show that is an old art that they really wanted to connect the continuity to that now the people can go through the history like this and then they can come to the this transparent gallery that where people can enjoy the view outside that this town has this continuity is something that they want to achieve through the museum the transparent part here and the opaque part here come like this and then the facade reflect surroundings to try to have some harmony between architecture and the landscape this is the construction construction has started since - two years two years ago and then this is the one of the gallery with the wolves and the transparent sky light glass roof and we are now thinking to have aluminum whoa outside and the inside outside the architecture wall will reflect surrounding and the inside the wall will reflect the art because the new policy is very rubbish very building but we must make chief building and compared to the old days so that is the it's very difficult to think about the interior but we almost visitors and so you can feel the same raga jewelry the contemporary jewelry but also the always people feel I hope that be involved this process since building has calm Cove on the wall so that the reflection on the wall will be a little bit less a distorted in the way it's not just a reflection and now we are walking on the construction site and the completion will come at the end of 2012 this is the last photo of today thank you very much [Music] why she take some questions they will welcome your questions I thank you very much you talked about in terms of your spaces how the shapes fit the program and you also talked a number of times about the the limits of spaces as well and and I'm the you talked about how these shapes fit the program and the limits of spaces and also the thresholds of spaces and I'm wondering what are your thoughts on the corners two spaces there are corners outside of the spaces inside and of the spaces what does the corner mean to you a corner and there are many different types of corners of course what-what do you thought what are your thoughts I [Music] don't quite understand the question myself for instance in the the last project that you showed the the museum that you just showed there were images where we were there was one model photograph where you we saw the interior of a large room and there was a divider in the room a wall it appeared to be inside the room that was curved and then of course inside the room there are also all the many objects and then there are also the corners to that room itself that is one case of where you have thought about corners and also in your I guess it's the what is it called EP FL the very large matte building you talked about the the limits to spaces and when you look out across one space to another the rooms blend together I cannot understand but maybe I try to answer something and maybe use so the models that big doom we divided right with this wall this is just a trial and we will not do that so that is a bad model sorry you mentioned that the divided like this no no boo the last project and for me what I'm start struggling now is always I feel until now we try to make relation between inside and outside but still I don't know you are meaning of the corner but for me also the something is very difficult because the sometimes we try to make some continuity between each different program inside or some space interior to relate to a validation to the outside but always I felt something is still but because the interior it program itself cannot touch the outside so the we show the last the small Museum project which I try to bring more a strong correlation the the program itself to the outside so sometimes we make a very simple volume and then inter is a big space so they have a Samoas relation but envy you we see the very outside well but the appear very strongly that means that this lying still too strong for example Canada wise it's sometimes even the very transparent but the shape appear very strongly to the outside so we can explain the very smooth relation but the same time as I experienced the glass war stunned and of course architecture should divide outside and inside to make someone interior environment but I think even that of course we need some water between the inside outside well I try to find more stronger relation that means some shape or that some design walks I believe I hope so that every day I try to find that I hope that is yes very much if I may ask for a one elaboration very quick as it pertains to that to that answer what is the difference between a curved room versus one with angular corners maybe to be more specific problem I think man hi thank you the lecture it's it's a shorter question I was just curious in the teardrop gallery project you said that there was one singular art piece that you were designing in mind and I was just curious what the art piece was and how you integrated the design of the museum with the artists the one art piece in the teardrop gallery what is that art piece and how does the museum relate with it the artist is Japanese female artist whose name is Miss NATO she's quite well known in Japan and how project is the water she used water and then water in the morning water appears from somewhere in the floor and the water getting at them big to create the fountain and then it's kind of interesting water runs because floor is not that floor is not just flood they have a little bit inclined slope together the water to at some point and then they disappeared anyway it's a kind of water water out piece and then it's dynamic it's not it's removing more than 100 point the small water coming from the flow of the morning and then the water move and then become one bigger water area and then the night disappear again famous with water because most of the island in Japan has a program with the lack of water but it's this island has some how much green and water because of I think big mountain that's why mr. Naito found water as a hot heart of our project even in my case I thought water can be very important things to think on this situation thank you very much for your presentation throughout your works I sense this strong fascination with abstraction in your work no matter in case of materiality or structure and looking at the museum with one single opening we can easily relate that to the pantheon of Rome and I want to ask you to comment on this ideology of abstraction in relation to the kind of Japanese culture that you embrace with and also the kind of philosophy you kind of believe in so abstraction he mentioned especially that this is the museum water general general general even even the white of color not only Japan but maybe Asian area has more close relation to the surroundings very difficult question maybe they understand the understanding of nature could be something different in Japanese case I don't know generally Japanese architecture is very open open they don't have a wall because the season we have a full season and watching the season more carefree Japanese people has a 24 different season coming next next during the year I think because of the humidity because of the earthquake we always try to create some dynamic relation with the outside and inside I think and then another thing is that we always tried we always make things very simple I think this is a I don't know if it's a nice thing or not but looking the Japanese temple everything is made in a very simple way and it's we can say this is obstruction but not only obstruction I think their way is always make things very simple I think and then our building our project is also kind of this same lying I think creating some dynamic relation between inside and outside trying to make things simple I think I'm not sure thank you for your lecture and through your design I think your decide gives me the sense of very brisk and light feeling because yours doctors like you use very a lot of transparent materials in your auto museums and galleries and but at the same time I feel it's not that light it's still here it's very heavy studies in there like in a city it's not it's it feels like leather but it's still very you know what I mean it's heavy so I mean I can feel the power of your decides I want to ask how you balance your there light and heavy sense in your design or how to show the power of your buildings thank you not just to make a right structure same thing I think this is like how you can feel feel the gravity how you can feel the existence of the things so was lightness and heaviness is almost the same

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Keywords: Japanese architecture, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA

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Length: 87min 57sec (5277 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 06 2011