Transbody/supertraffic /1996

Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

Transbody/supertraffic /1996

Transbody/supertraffic/1996

"Triennale di Milano '96"
transbody
hiroshima mon amour
location:	hiroshima, japan
dimension:	500meter in diameter
site area:	196250square meters
building area:	37287.5square meters
structure:	glass/ steel frame/ steel frame and reinforced concrete
building type:	highway/railway/station/bus terminal/parking/movie theater/library/museum/ plaza/tv-radio satellite studio/information booth/media center/hotel/department store/office/housing
situation:	super traffic transact/transcend/transcript/transfer/transfigure/transfix/transform/transfuse/ transgress/tranship/transit/translate/transliterate/translucent/transmigrate/transmit/ transmogrify/transmute/transparent/transpire/transplant/transport/transpose/human/love/ character/language/will/telephone/memory/blood/phenomenon/nerve/ sign/gene/time/age/ sinkansen/generation/era/second/date/event/figure/radio/year/void/religion/atomic/nuclear/ earthquake/ideology/virus/prejudice/discrimination/train/motor/airplane/ship/electoricity/ television/optical/fiber/wire/wireless/silicon/microwave/fashion/computer/mode/ intelligence/fantasy/medium/film/vision/god/power/energy/noise/crystal/shock/emotion/ music/art/sports/money/bicycle/card/culture/festival/image/authority/hunger/physics/arm/ fascism/nation/border/race/ethno/treaty/consumption/bus/liberty/freedom/genre/ego/ sight/hearing/taxi/ability/scene/field/balance/justice/peace/hegemony/tram/discord/ attraction/resonance/code/mind/opinion/sense/remains/anger/regret/objection/intention/ destitute/refugees/pain/fate/announcement/lie/song/feeling/voice

1995 Scottish Architecture and Design Center

Scottish Architecture and Design Center /1995

- The building not set on the ground.
- It becomes part of the ground.
- Landscape with green trees as cityedge.
- The city-court surrounded by the forest.
- Square and transparent plate offer events and interaction in many ways.
- Transparent box including the microcity with fully sunshine, under the ground.
- A plate gathering lights on the ground.
- Theater box with transparency.
- Floating seat, screen, and projector.
- Luminous theater to the night.
- A lightning square in the square.
- Representing border and continuity of the city.
- Mixture and echo of informations.
- Connection of events, encounter, and interaction.
- Landscape of plaza, street, and the site turns into the forest gateway to the city centre.
- The existence of the architecture is less, rather the most primitive form that was led by functions appears as phenomena.
- A sign to the existence beyond our eyes on the earth forming an environmental system within city and communicating with the sky.
- Making the place of communication in the community, not an architecture, but a park.
- The building is not a building in the traditional sense in that becomes part of the landscape.
- The building should express an attitude about society and about design's role in the society, and how the city of edinburgh meet the future.
- We sought to create a design which gives image and expression to the fundamental changes which underly our culture today and which are its irrepressible promise for the future.
- The abstract form of this building in it's natural surroundings strikes one as being clearly man-made.
- On the other hand, the reflections on the transparent floor put it to a tender relationship with the sky and surrounding trees.

Minimalist House /1990

This house sites in an exclusive residential area, on a long, narrow site running north-south. A 3.6 meter grid was used to generate configurations of square and cuboid forms. Square vertical surfaces are arranged continuously within a 25.2 meter hollow culvert box enclosing all the private room functions.

The repetition of positive square walls articulates cuboid spaces, which are linked by tunnels formed of continuous negative square walls.

A gallery housing the client's two cherished classic cars in partitioned from the house by transparent glass screens; its sky roof opens like the sunroof of a car. Negating the visual world and art of the past, the square expresses the primacy of spirit over matter. The Minimalist House represents a tentative proposal for design as the minimal creative human activity.

LIVING ROOM TO COURT GALLERY

MASTER BEDROOM TO COURT GALLERY /1990

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