“I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space,” says Junya Ishigami of his new structure at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology. “This allows a new flexibility to emerge, revealing reality rather than shaping it.”
Streaming with natural light and perfectly integrated with the outside environment, Ishigami’s Facility comprises over 300 5m high steel columns, irregularly distributed throughout the space to ensure a sense of openness simultaneously with contained local areas which can be freely redefined according to use.
Devoted to the general activity of ‘making things’, the forest – as it has been dubbed – is said to be a space where “students from a range of engineering and design disciplines collaborate with the local community to craft anything from furniture to robots” (Julian Worrall).
Photographs by Iwan Baan
This is a wonderful project
Comment by Lisa — January 4, 2010 @ 2:38 pmfantastic. please continue this blog we miss you!
Comment by Abbey — February 8, 2010 @ 11:11 pmInspiring
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