Shigeru Ban: house, Shelter Island, New York, USA.This site for this house is on Shelter Island Shelter Island (1990 pop. 1,193), 7 mi (11.2 km) long and 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, between the two peninsulas of E Long Island, SE N.Y. Settled in the 17th cent. by English colonists, the island has been a summer resort since the 1870s. , a 108-hectare island town located at the eastern end of Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the population was 1,419,369. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came. . Its design was inspired by a recent flight taken by its architect, Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban (坂茂, Ban Shigeru; born 1957 in Tokyo, Japan) is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper , who while daydreaming at 37 000 feet, visualised a wing-like form that would not interfere with the existing landscape of the site. Set within a scattering of trees on a flat landscape that merges with a water inlet, the boomerang-shaped roof was designed to wind between the trees, without presenting any sense of gravity. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whether or not the architect's ambitious aim to out-minimise Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles southwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60 acre estate site adjoining the Fox River (Illinois) south of the city of has been successful or not, this house certainly extends Shigeru Ban's interest in the art of construction, with its ribbed roof section mimicking the assembly of aircraft wings. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The plan is arranged around a small pond, with an elliptical el·lip·tic or el·lip·ti·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having the shape of an ellipse. 2. Containing or characterized by ellipsis. 3. a. form that resonates with the shape of solid service cores that bring stability to the structure. Taking the aircraft analogy one step further, a single privileged room rises above the rest, with a cockpit-like bedroom located above the kitchen that enjoys greater exclusivity and additional privacy. R. G. |
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