| Title |
Architectural Characteristics and its Implications in Tadao Ando's Museums |
| Keywords |
Museum ; Tadao Ando ; Geometry ; Modernism |
| Abstract |
This study considers the architectural characteristics and its implications in Tadao Ando's Museums through the paths from external approach to exhibition space. The research results are as follows; ① Approach to Ando's museums is a slow??ascension through paths intentionally detoured in company with water. The exceptional opacity in front of visitors is not a barrier but an invitation which leads them to the other side. ②The reversed paths form ascension to descension just before or after the entry makes visitors' mind appropriate to appreciate exhibited objects. These ascension, descension, detoured circulation mean that the Ando's museums are different from other museums which pursuit the shortest circulation. ③Even though Ando's museums, composed by simple geometries to be differentiated harmoniously between nature and human, transcend deep attachment to main facade, traditionally main concerns in museum architecture, the directivity to the main entrance is clear. The geometric forms of Ando's museums are closely connected with the characteristics of interior space. ④ The narrow entrance halls of Ando's museums satisfy a role of a border point between exterior and interior, and breathe by successive spatial extension. In exhibition space, where determinacy space and indeterminacy space intersect, functional space and emotional space are combined. Then, a singular material of exposed concrete gives a consistency into a continuous spatiality. |