Moriyama House-Tokyo Japan, Office Ryue Nishazawa
Reading -Cooking, Yo-ing, Thinking – Sanford Kwinter
The architect has tried Non-conventional housing typology: organized in clusters and has tried to break away from the traditional Japanese courtyard house thereby Creating more flexibility in terms of use and organized space.The elements can be inhabited by different and changing protagonists, they can be rented easily for different kinds of use thereby making it more adaptable and user friendly. various courtyards create changing situations (in environmental meanings but as well as social ones: by interaction of the inhabitants)In terms of privacy the windows are never facing each other, they either open to the landscape, a blank wall or the sky. So the privacy of each single cluster element is maintained. Although the architect is talking about privacy the windows are big. They appear like shopping windows or theatrical stages. The inhabitant is kind of exhibited to the people passing the ‘stage’,but the cluster is opened to the street, so in that case it is more open to public than the traditional courtyard housing typology. The spaces between the elements are ‘semi-public’, they are open to the street although it is clear, that it is a private site.
Sanford Kwinter ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and relational logics in architecture. The readings offer an extended meditation on infrastructure, computation, mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity. Far-reaching in scope, Far from Equilibrium amounts to a performance in writing of what Kwinter describes as radical anamnesis: the imagination’s escape from the sterile logic of what is. Compiling over a decade of architectural and critical writings.It is widely known that architectrural thought has begun to incorporate a variety of concerns about the natural world under the auspices to energy thereby accommodating the demand to rethink its relationship to the atmosphere
I would like to do a further research on the topic of environmental relation integrated building systems as they relate to architectural design and construction including study of principles of integrated design and the implications of these in relation to architectural design, and construction processes and outcomes.. Physical, visual and performative integration of building performance systems will be considered in terms of their relationship to design intent.