| Title |
The Concept and Embodiment of ‘Atmosphere’ in SANAA’s Architecture |
| Keywords |
SANAA ; Kazuyo Sejima ; Ryue Nishizawa ; Atmosphere |
| Abstract |
SANAA(Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates), a leading Japanese architectural firm, has developed the architectural ‘atmosphere’ as its general principle and aim of their design practice. Ultimately defining it as “a landscape (the contemporary scenery) for people,” the firm has been pursuing a ‘new freedom’ and has incorporated multiple values into it: contemporaneity, integrity of programs and phenomena, and potentiality. SANAA tries to embody the concept of ‘atmosphere’ through the various representational strategies: hierarchical reconstitution of space, transparent and abstract simplification, and non-deceptive trick. In the resulting architectural representation, a heterotopia can be found. |