Skill Forest of Net Pavilion.FOREST OF NET PAVILION LOCATION HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, KANAGAWA PREFECTURE “Kanagawa” redirects here. For other uses, see Kanagawa (disambiguation). Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県 , JAPAN KEY WORDS INTERLOCKING interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st TIMBER DOME ARCHITECT TEZUKA ARCHITECTS WRITER ROB GREGORY PHOTOGRAPHY KATSUHISA KIDA/FOTOTECA Takaharu and Yui Tezuka dress in a very precise manner. He wears blue, she wears red; a habit perhaps picked up from the stylishly rouge Mike Davies
Mike Davies (b. 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is a disc jockey currently active on Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. , partner at the former Richard Rogers For the American composer, see . Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside FRIBA (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. Partnership, where Takaharu worked between 1990 and 1994. Their buildings, however, are less predictable. They always produce highly spirited responses in relation to place, as seen in their wonderful snake-like Matsunoyama Natural Science Museum (AR December 2004), and in relation to brief, as seen at the Fuji Kindergarten (AR August 2007). Their latest project, built for an art museum, maintains both of these aspects: the spirit and the science of innovative architecture. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dedicated to a single work--a climbing net for children created by artist Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam--this 350[m.sup.2] pavilion (named the Forest of Net) is situated in the Hakone Open-Air Museum. Built to provide shelter from rain and harsh sunlight, Tezuka's aim was to maintain a sense that children were playing outdoors. Large sections of Douglas fir Douglas fir: see pine. Douglas fir Any of about six species of coniferous evergreen timber trees (see conifer) that make up the genus Pseudotsuga, in the pine family, native to western North America and eastern Asia. were stacked to produce equally large gaps, in what amounts to an inverted inverted reverse in position, direction or order. inverted L block a pattern of local filtration anesthesia commonly used in laparotomy in the ox. bird's nest of interlocking mega-twigs. No steel reinforcement has been used, apart from that required in the structure's concrete base. Instead, a mixture of cutting-edge and historic techniques were adopted, with CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control. CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication machines and timber pegs used to create fixings between each of the 580 planks. Takaharu likens the structure to a forest clearing, which would have been the ideal setting for the art work. 'We wanted to create an ambiguous boundary, like a forest or the notional space created by a campfire at night. We also wanted to create a structure that would not compete with the tensile qualities of the installation.' Unable to resist the comparison of scale, he concludes by saying: 'The client was surprised by its size. At 26 x 25m in plan, our dome is a similar order to that of [Istanbul's] Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia (hä`jə sōfē`ə, hā`jēə,) [Gr.,=Holy Wisdom] or Santa Sophia, Turkish Aya Sofia, !' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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