SPRINGTIME IN THE PARK.Using the undiscovered potential of a commonplace material, Shuhei Endo has evolved a picturesque picturesque, term used in 18th-century England to refer to a landscape that looked as if it had come out of an academic painting. Used as derogatory criticism of such painting, the picturesque was considered pretty rather than beautiful. monument. The jury was deeply impressed by the liveliness and freshness of this little building in a park in ShinguCho, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. With great economy of means, it makes a memorable moment in the landscape, and forms a landmark out of public lavatories, a normally embarrassing building type that is suppressed visually. The pavilion is both an event in a picturesque landscape tradition shared by both Japan and Europe, and an exploration and celebration of the potential of galvanized gal·va·nize tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es 1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current. 2. corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. metal. The dramatic shape grows out of the nature of the material and, once seen, seems natural, logical and economical. But the form is entirely new, and has mysterious echoes of the geometrical complexities revealed by modern science. As the architect says 'Springtecture architecture is not composed of roof, wall, pillar pillar, freestanding columnar supporting member. It is a general term, little used as an exact architectural definition except as applied to an upright support in the medieval styles, consisting of an assemblage of juxtaposed shafts and moldings; unlike the column, girder girder In building construction, a large main supporting beam, commonly of steel or reinforced concrete, that carries a heavy transverse (crosswise) load. In a floor system, beams and joists transfer their loads to the girders, which in turn frame into the columns. and slab ... It is another architecture completed by original thought'. The building appeared in AR October 1998. Architect Shuhei Endo Shuhei Endo Architect Institute, Osaka Photographer Yoshiharu Matsumura |
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