Given Architects: John Utzon // SANAA Architects
SANAA - Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
Zollverein School of Management and Design, Germany
The New, New Museum, New York USA
Dior Store, Tokyo, Japan
Kanazawa Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishigawa, Japan
Rolex Learning Centre, Switzerland
FIRST IMPRESSIONS // At first, I sensed a theme of consistency. SANAA utilises the sterile white facade along with a lot of glass. There is a very contemporary take on light and space. Open spaces, yet stream-lined with the play of rectilinear and curvilinear forms. They manage to be very minimalist without sacrificing a strong relationship between public and privates spaces.
CONCEPTS// from articles and first impressions
1. 'It is minimal and a matter of fact at the same time' - MINIMALIST/STREAM LINED/PRACTICAL
2. 'create reflections and layered spaces with unclear boundaries' - OPEN SPACES/ LAYERS
3. 'relation between the inside and outside'
4. ' light
and ephemeral, and continually changing with different situations of perception'
5. 'to make the exterior a more accurate representation of the interior'
4. (Stan Allen)Allen, S. (2010) “SANAA’s Dirty Realism” p 58
etc//worth noting
Excerpt from an interview
So you tried to relate the building to its surrounding environment?
S:
You always need to think about how a building will look beside its neighbors.
Of course, that doesn't mean you should merely imitate them. Neither does it
mean you should make the other buildings look bad. The ideal is to create
something that, through its presence, makes the overall environment look
better, and at the same time makes your own building look good by virtue of its
relationship with the surrounding buildings.
From <http://architecturalinterviews.blogspot.com.au/2009/12/kazuyo-sejima-ryue-nishizawa-successes.html>
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