| Title |
A Study on the Tensional Relationship between Form and Function in a Building Constituted by Random Arrangement of Elements |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2019.35.8.35 |
| Keywords |
random; form; function; Sou Fujimoto |
| Abstract |
This study started from the interest about a theme repeated in a similar way among a group of architects in Japan. They argue that a
building composed of random elements can lead to discoverable functions rather than fixed functions. Their work supports this to a certain
extent, but at the same time raises the following two research questions. Can 'formal randomness' and 'functional discoverability' be
completely identical? Does such a form sufficiently fulfill other functions of the building? In order to answer these two research questions,
this study analyzes the relationship between form and function in the ‘Children’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation’ of Sou Fujimoto.
The analysis proceeded in three steps. In the first step, I found that alcoves were the most important factor in functional discoverability by
comparing scenarios with different conditions. At the same time, however, I could see that these alcoves were weakened in the process of
functional adjustment. In the second step, I analyzed the final design and found Sou Fujimoto's response to the preceding problem. He
thought that in-between alcoves created from formal randomness, were not enough and thus introduced a new method, cutting alcoves. This
means that formal randomness alone does not fully guarantee both the functional discoverability and the fulfillment of the basic functions. In
the third step, I searched for the significance of this problem through a brief comparison with other similar projects |