LATTICE VAULT.Continuing Shigeru Ban's experiments with materials and structure, this timber lattice forms a delicate, luminous vault. Shigeru Ban's work is permeated by a strong sense of Japanese architectural history  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. reinterpreted in an explicitly contemporary manner. It embodies the classic Japanese tenet of elegant economy, of making the most out of very little, transforming banal materials such as paper and cardboard into structural elements Structural elements are used in structural analysis to simplify the structure which is to be analysed. Structural elements can be linear, surfaces or volumes. Linear elements:
One of his most recent projects is a children's day-care centre day-care centre n → centro de día; (for children) → guardería infantil day-care centre day n (for elderly etc) → centre m attached to a hospital in the far northern town of Odate. Glazed at both ends, the single-storey building is a seamless tubular volume, with free-standing partitions delineating washing and kitchen spaces. The tube is made up of tautly curved bands of laminated timber held in compression by a series of members running lengthways length·ways adv. Lengthwise. lengthways or lengthwise Adverb, adj in, according to, or along the direction of length Adj. 1. along the structure. Light percolates gently through square openings between the laminated timber bands, dappling the interior so that the effect is like being in a giant wicker basket. Odate is subject to heavy snowfalls and roofs have to contend with considerable snow loads (450kg/sqm). The tube is enclosed and protected by a 45 degree pitched roof connected to the laminated timber inner layer by a spindly spin·dly adj. spin·dli·er, spin·dli·est Slender and elongated, especially in a way that suggests weakness. spindly Adjective [-dlier, -dliest space frame, which helps to stiffen stiff·en tr. & intr.v. stiff·ened, stiff·en·ing, stiff·ens To make or become stiff or stiffer. stiff and stabilize the structure. The ribbed roof is made up of alternate strips of steel and translucent polycarbonate A category of plastic materials used to make a myriad of products, including CDs and CD-ROMs. sheeting so that the light can diffuse through. Inventive in its exploitation of basic materials, this sensuous timber tunnel exemplifies Ban's lyrical yet rigorous sensibility. Architect Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo Structural engineer TIS & Partners CHILDREN'S DAY-CARE CENTRE, ODATE, JAPAN ARCHITECT SHIGERU BAN 1 Angular roof, designed to repel snowfalls, encloses a tubular volume fabricated from laminated timber. 2 An intermediate space frame stiffens the entire structural ensemble. 3 Luminous 'wickerwork' vault. Light dapples through openings in roof. |
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