Wood architecture in the expanded field | |
Otros Autores: | Atelier Bow-Wow; Azuma Architect&Associates /Rie Azuma/ Studio on Site; Core House Working Group in Archi-Aid Peninsula supporting Seminar; Hiroshi Nakamura; Jun Igarashi Architects; Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio; Kengo Kuma and Associates; Kohki Hiranuma Architect & Associates; KUS; Mount Fuji Architects Studio; NKS architects; Shigeru Ban Architects Europe; Sou Fujimoto Architects; Tadashi Yoshimura Architects; Taira Nishizawa Architects; Takenaka Corporation. |
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Resumen: | Japan has a long history of constructing buildings with wood. They include styles of houses that conform harmoniously to the forces of their environment. As a nation rich in forest resources, Japan has produced wood buildings of astonishingly diverse sizes and purposes. And yet, in modern times, Japan's beautiful townscapes of wood buildings and habits of living in harmony with nature have increasingly been lost. Reasons for this include the superior strength of steel and concrete, the imprecision of wood as a building material, and its ambiguity as a design material. Today, however, amid an urgent need for sustainability, architects are attempting to perceive and employ wood in new ways.This edition features 23 projects by architects who are taking new approaches to wood. Gathered in this pages are buildings that give play to the richness of wood, buildings that seek sustainability in order to protect forests, and buildings that endeavor to recover the beautiful landscapes of the past. We asked each architect the question-why, at this particular time, are you creating architecture with wood? The text herein comprise their answers. |
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Japan has a long history of constructing buildings with wood. They include styles of houses that conform harmoniously to the forces of their environment. As a nation rich in forest resources, Japan has produced wood buildings of astonishingly diverse sizes and purposes. And yet, in modern times, Japan's beautiful townscapes of wood buildings and habits of living in harmony with nature have increasingly been lost. Reasons for this include the superior strength of steel and concrete, the imprecision of wood as a building material, and its ambiguity as a design material. Today, however, amid an urgent need for sustainability, architects are attempting to perceive and employ wood in new ways.
This edition features 23 projects by architects who are taking new approaches to wood. Gathered in this pages are buildings that give play to the richness of wood, buildings that seek sustainability in order to protect forests, and buildings that endeavor to recover the beautiful landscapes of the past. We asked each architect the question-why, at this particular time, are you creating architecture with wood? The text herein comprise their answers.
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