L’architecte japonais Ryue Nishizawa a imaginé dans une zone résidentielle à Kagawa une structure extérieure pensée autour d’un arbre en son centre. Invitant à la relaxation et au confort, cette jolie création appelée « Fukita Pavillion » est une tente géante à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa has teamed up with design studio Nendo to create a hillside pavilion, filled with stools designed to look like troops of wild mushrooms (+ slideshow).
Nishizawa, who is best known as one half of architecture duo SANAA, worked with Nendo to construct the wooden pavilion on a steep hillside on the campus of Kyoto University of Art and Design.
The smooth timber roof of the structure follows the incline of the hill and is supported by dozens of narrow timber columns. In some places these are anchored into the ground and in other spots they are fixed to the surface of an outdoor staircase.
“The pavilion’s spatial experience is intended to remind visitors of walking in the mountains under thick tree cover,” said the designers.
Curved steel tubes were used to make a series of stools both inside and outside of the shelter, and were designed with different shapes and sizes to mimic the way fungi grows in the wild.
“We wanted to design architectural elements that would ‘grow’ naturally from the space, rather than to put furniture in a room,” the designers explained.
Some stools form an extension to the staircase balustrade, while others wrap around columns and some interlock with one another.
The university plans to plant a grove of Japanese plum trees on the site next to the pavilion. “Their fragrant early spring blossoms will only add to an already beautiful site,” added the designers.
Here’s a project description from Nendo:
A small pavilion “roof and mushrooms” in Kyoto
A small pavilion on the campus of Kyoto University of Art and Design, born from a collaboration between architect Ryue Nishizawa and design office nendo. The location: a steep hill face covered in luxurious vegetation.
On a clear day, you can almost count the 36 crests of the hills that line Kyoto’s eastern edge. The adjacent area is earmarked for a new grove of Japanese plum trees, and their fragrant early spring blossoms will only add to an already beautiful site. Nishizawa used a single roof to incorporate these elements into the pavilion’s design.
The roof is subtly inclined to follow the angle of the site. Dipping under it, visitors realise that the roof, delightfully and ambiguously, is also a wall.
The pavilion’s spatial experience is intended to remind visitors of walking in the mountains under thick tree cover.
To date, many of Nishizawa’s buildings have felt like bright, open and airy fields or gardens, and the furniture inside them like wildflowers that blur the boundary between interior and exterior space while adding brightness and colour.
But for the shady interior of this wooden structure, clinging onto the hillside exposed to the elements, we thought that furniture like fungi would be much more appropriate.
Our mushroom-like stools for the space were handmade by artisans to slightly different shapes and sizes, giving a more natural effect.
The stools’ layout – clustered at the base of pillars, or in the nooks and crannies by stone walls and staircases – evokes the way that mushrooms growing the wild, and details like a handrail that transforms into a mushroom continue the metaphor.
We wanted to design architectural elements that would ‘grow’ naturally from the space, rather than to put furniture in a room.
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This Tokyo five-storey townhouse by Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa is fronted by a stack of gardens.
Located in a dense commercial district, the building provides a combined home and workplace for two writers. The site was just four metres wide, so Nishizawa designed a building that has only glass walls to avoid narrowing the interior spaces even further.
“My final decision of structure consisted of a vertical layer of horizontal slabs to create a building without walls,” said the architect.
Gardens are interspersed with rooms on each of the four floors of the building, creating a screen of plants that mask the facade from the eyes of passing strangers. Glazed walls beyond protect the interior from the elements.
“The entirety is a wall-less transparent building designed to provide an environment with maximum sunlight despite the dark site conditions,” added the architect. “Every room, whether it is the living room, private room or the bathroom, has a garden of its own so that the residents may go outside to feel the breeze, read a book or cool off in the evening and enjoy an open environment in their daily life.”
Above: floor plans – click above for larger image and key
Staircases spiral up through the building, passing through circular openings in the thick concrete floor plates. A similar opening cuts through the roof, allowing taller plants to stretch through to the upper terrace.
Above: west and north elevations
Bedrooms are located on the first and third floors and are separated from meeting and study areas with glass screens and curtains.
Ryue Nishizawa is one half of architectural partnership SANAA, which he runs alongside Kazuyo Sejima. The pair recently completed a new outpost of the Musée du Louvre in France, while other projects by the studio include the Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. See more architecture by SANAA.
Photography is by Iwan Baan.
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