This striking visual quality that is one of the most identifiable characteristics of the project is comprable to large trees in a forest, and function as light shafts as well as storage for all of the utilities, networks and systems. This is a website of sendai mediatheque - a public institution thatserves as a base for activities related to art and moving image, atthe same time supporting people to utilize various media for disseminating and acquiring information. He went to Japan with his mother and sisters in 1943, and his father moved back there a few years later.
For example, the main facade, located on the south side facing the boulevard is a double layer of glass, very useful in the winter months, strong winds, is the most external and extends the effect of slightly increasing lightness of the building.The west side façade, which faces a lot, is opaque, coated with a metal frame which leaves the emergency staircases in the north and east facades, creating paths to neighborhood streets, they have different finishes on each floor: glass polycarbonate and aluminum. In doing so, try to find new spatial conditions that manifest the philosophy of beings without frontiers.He has received numerous international awards, including in 2010, the 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu; in 2006, The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal; and in 2002, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 8th Venice Biennale International Exhibition.Circular in plan, the building features a curving wooden lattice roof, designed to resemble a “large straw sun hat”.A tandem of the architectural projects. 166 arches are built in a quadrilateral, allowing the natural scenery to live in the interior.On the outside, the building resembles a large glass aquarium, where instead of fish there are libraries, cinema, studio and exhibition space stand. Are forged steel and pipes, while the skin, both external and covering the pillars-yard, is made of glass.Ito suggested different facades according to the vocation of the environment they face. 1st floor; 2nd floor; 3rd-4th floors; 5th floor; 6th floor; 7th floor; Cafe & … The hotel is contained in a distorted cylinder, expanding towards the top and clad in red metal panels.The office building is a rectangular volume with a glass curtain wall and red motif running through the centre.This is the place to read, engage in discussions, relax or just have a cup of coffee. The latter are perhaps the most important aspects of the work since the run from the first to the floor and far from being orthogonal, they have a circular section that is changing as increasing in height, varying in each well one of the plants.It is a multifunctional building, open and dynamic, with many micro environments whose activities are coordinated by the furniture.
Toyo Ito has been inspired by this particular shape to design furniture that facilitates connection among people and that allows free use of spaces. The Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito is a world-renowned building for its transparent architecture. This is a website of sendai mediatheque - a public institution thatserves as a base for activities related to art and moving image, atthe same time supporting people to utilize various media for disseminating and acquiring information. A very interesting aspect is that the separation between the public area of Reading and the Private area of administration is simply a translucent curtain, resembling a floating wall.At the third level and fourth level, the room is actually a mezaninne are the area of lending books and reading rooms.In the fifth and sixth floor exhibition galleries are located, used by the citizens of Sendai. Changing the position or orientation of the benches, we can modify the context and adapt to the dimensions of any space.
Algae grow through the floors in the form of asymmetrical tube. The structure of the Sendai Mediatheque is composed of three main elements: tubes, plates and skin. We decided to share our knowledge through this article presented in … Toyo Ito's winning entry for an open competition commissioned by the city of Sendai in 1995, the innovative building opened to the public in January 2001. Sendai is definitely a piece of furniture of silent albeit captivating design, which reflects the typical oriental philosophy of the great architect. These CAD drawings are available to purchase and download immediately! 04-jun-2013 - Completed in 2001 in Sendai-shi, Japan. The result is a bench with vegetal silhouette, similar to the fragments of a plant, with which we can compose a full leaf.By combining the pieces of the series in different ways, we alter the rhythms.
The tube houses the largest vertical circulation that connects the different levels of the media.Despite his frail appearance and transparent, these structures confer flexibility, strength and horizontal and vertical stability to the building in an area of high seismic activity and typhoons constant.The building’s structural system is made up with two of the three basic elements for the design of the building, the floor are sheets of metal, and pipes, which are columns in the form of tubes combined.The structure of the cell is built with reinforcements embedded between two steel plates.
For example, the main facade, located on the south side facing the boulevard is a double layer of glass, very useful in the winter months, strong winds, is the most external and extends the effect of slightly increasing lightness of the building.The west side façade, which faces a lot, is opaque, coated with a metal frame which leaves the emergency staircases in the north and east facades, creating paths to neighborhood streets, they have different finishes on each floor: glass polycarbonate and aluminum. In doing so, try to find new spatial conditions that manifest the philosophy of beings without frontiers.He has received numerous international awards, including in 2010, the 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu; in 2006, The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal; and in 2002, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 8th Venice Biennale International Exhibition.Circular in plan, the building features a curving wooden lattice roof, designed to resemble a “large straw sun hat”.A tandem of the architectural projects. 166 arches are built in a quadrilateral, allowing the natural scenery to live in the interior.On the outside, the building resembles a large glass aquarium, where instead of fish there are libraries, cinema, studio and exhibition space stand. Are forged steel and pipes, while the skin, both external and covering the pillars-yard, is made of glass.Ito suggested different facades according to the vocation of the environment they face. 1st floor; 2nd floor; 3rd-4th floors; 5th floor; 6th floor; 7th floor; Cafe & … The hotel is contained in a distorted cylinder, expanding towards the top and clad in red metal panels.The office building is a rectangular volume with a glass curtain wall and red motif running through the centre.This is the place to read, engage in discussions, relax or just have a cup of coffee. The latter are perhaps the most important aspects of the work since the run from the first to the floor and far from being orthogonal, they have a circular section that is changing as increasing in height, varying in each well one of the plants.It is a multifunctional building, open and dynamic, with many micro environments whose activities are coordinated by the furniture.
Toyo Ito has been inspired by this particular shape to design furniture that facilitates connection among people and that allows free use of spaces. The Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito is a world-renowned building for its transparent architecture. This is a website of sendai mediatheque - a public institution thatserves as a base for activities related to art and moving image, atthe same time supporting people to utilize various media for disseminating and acquiring information. A very interesting aspect is that the separation between the public area of Reading and the Private area of administration is simply a translucent curtain, resembling a floating wall.At the third level and fourth level, the room is actually a mezaninne are the area of lending books and reading rooms.In the fifth and sixth floor exhibition galleries are located, used by the citizens of Sendai. Changing the position or orientation of the benches, we can modify the context and adapt to the dimensions of any space.
Algae grow through the floors in the form of asymmetrical tube. The structure of the Sendai Mediatheque is composed of three main elements: tubes, plates and skin. We decided to share our knowledge through this article presented in … Toyo Ito's winning entry for an open competition commissioned by the city of Sendai in 1995, the innovative building opened to the public in January 2001. Sendai is definitely a piece of furniture of silent albeit captivating design, which reflects the typical oriental philosophy of the great architect. These CAD drawings are available to purchase and download immediately! 04-jun-2013 - Completed in 2001 in Sendai-shi, Japan. The result is a bench with vegetal silhouette, similar to the fragments of a plant, with which we can compose a full leaf.By combining the pieces of the series in different ways, we alter the rhythms.
The tube houses the largest vertical circulation that connects the different levels of the media.Despite his frail appearance and transparent, these structures confer flexibility, strength and horizontal and vertical stability to the building in an area of high seismic activity and typhoons constant.The building’s structural system is made up with two of the three basic elements for the design of the building, the floor are sheets of metal, and pipes, which are columns in the form of tubes combined.The structure of the cell is built with reinforcements embedded between two steel plates.