Centre point: disturbed children find a focus in a big house/little city.Of the many Japanese entries in this year's awards, this treatment centre for disturbed children by Sou Fujimoto won unanimous praise from the judges for its combination of simplicity and sympathy. How, given the unhappy circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or of those being treated, should architecture respond to combat worries, stresses and strains which have produced a need for the building in the first place? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fujimoto's answer is to create a multiplicity mul·ti·plic·i·ty n. pl. mul·ti·plic·i·ties 1. The state of being various or manifold: the multiplicity of architectural styles on that street. 2. of 'centres' in the series of apparently random, but in reality carefully planned, arrangements of the individual buildings. In their 'external' relationship to each other, there is no obvious centre to the complex, no hierarchy of buildings or spaces. Internally, the provision of alcove and other semi-private areas allows the residents to occupy their own centre stage, or to use the common space as a centre. This strategy addresses two common conditions in disturbed young people: on the one hand a feeling of powerlessness pow·er·less adj. 1. Lacking strength or power; helpless and totally ineffectual. 2. Lacking legal or other authority. pow and indeed sometimes paranoia paranoia (pr'ənoi`ə), in psychology, a term denoting persistent, unalterable, systematized, logically reasoned delusions, or false beliefs, usually of persecution or grandeur. , and on the other hand a desire to be able to assert their independent personality. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The architect regards the interiors as providing something akin to the free interpretation of space by primitive man, capable of being used for hiding or enjoyment, separation or connection. The sense of useful ambiguity Ambiguity Delphic oracle ultimate authority in ancient Greece; often speaks in ambiguous terms. [Gk. Hist.: Leach, 305] Iseult’s vow pledge to husband has double meaning. [Arth. applies to the overall planning concept: is the centre a large home or a small city? Is it about the intimacy This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. of the single building or the variety of the larger whole? For the residents, who spend time living in the centre, it is what they want or need it to be. What they find is large-volume spaces filled with filtered natural light, but plenty of opportunity for private contemplation Contemplation Compleat Angler, The Izaak Walton’s classic treatise on the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. [Br. Lit.: The Compleat Angler] Thinker, The sculpture by Rodin, depicting contemplative man. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Precision about the disposition of uses, and indeed the disposition of the various blocks, each with its mix of uses, results in the translation of an artificial design process into an apparently organic sprinkling of buildings across the site. This merging of the intentional in·ten·tion·al adj. 1. Done deliberately; intended: an intentional slight. See Synonyms at voluntary. 2. Having to do with intention. and the precise into a centre which is, in the architect's words, 'vague, unpredictable and filled with unlikelihood', is a strong intuitive response to the needs of the children. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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