";s:4:"text";s:6676:" The tubes perform a number of functions. The four tubes closest to the outer corners of the plates were designed to resist a 400-year The tubes also house vertical circulation of air, water, electricity, light and people within the building. Structure becomes ornamentation. The building sits flush with Jozenji street, a six-lane divided This extension of the city into the building continues throughout all seven floors above ground; a gesture which reinforces Ito's resistance to the rigid limitation of activities in the building to within predetermined areas. Such spaces exist, for example, between the tubes and the building perimeter. Sendai is very different." startxref
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the sendai mediateque. Well-equipped studios and seminar rooms accommodate a variety of activities and workshops, including lifelong learning, dissemination of information, volunteer activities for people with impairments, as well as video production and workshops on digital media. sendai mediatheque toyo ito sendai, japan (northeastern region, 280km from Tokyo) kevin mckitrick professor ryan Caption: Expanded Context Caption: Street Level Context Caption: Programmatic Context Site Plan Caption: Ripple-like contour lines of activities occurring around the tubes. Since its opening in 2001, sendai mediatheque has attracted international attention as a distinctive work of architecture. Located in an area of 50 x 50 m, the multimedia library should contain several features: library, internet booths, areas for watching DVDs, galleries, cafes, etc. The structure of the Sendai Mediatheque is composed of three main elements: tubes, plates and skin. The materials which compose the skin are glass, steel panels, and aluminum mesh. Basically, universal space implies the possibility of doing anything anywhere in a homogeneous environment. The Sendai Mediatheque is a mixed-program public facility which combines library and art gallery functions located in the city of Sendai, Japan.The general concept,was the free public accessibility.
However, it differs from universal space in that there is considerable variation depending on where you are in the building. In the plane of a specific floor, the non-standard layout loosely manipulates the layout of the floor plan. Concept and Services. "The Sendai Mediatheque has been constantly changing from the beginning. The size of each tube is determined by its internal function – stairs, elevator, light shaft. El Croquis. Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan. @l��Z����h dg�� �� �"I�`��($��>d�C�W@�$� �]����>�f� �aˀ�%� {��*�2�3J---S�R�+�KRs�KRS�j!�A�BP�i 5Zh��o� ��@p�2��A�! Feb 5, 2015 - Explore Cristin Rochelle's board "Sendai Mediatheque" on Pinterest. the sendai mediatheque embodies the proposal for a completely new concept of architecture.
Located in an area of 50 x 50 m, the multimedia library should contain several features: library, internet booths, areas for watching DVDs, galleries, cafes, etc. Although they appear to be continuous, the tubes were actually manufactured in floor-height segments and were assembled sequentially, floor-by-floor. VOLUME, 15, (2008): 66-69.
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Upon approaching the Sendai Mediatheque, the public is led into a continuation of the surrounding city into the double height hall of the main entrance through large panes of glass. ...The complex includes a Mediatheque, an art gallery, a library, an information service center for people with visual and hearing impairments and a visual image media center. The most striking structural elements are the tubes, composed of thick-walled steel pipes; they range in size from 7 to 30 inches In diameter. ...this building has many free spaces, that is, spaces that are not intended, as rooms are, to serve specific functions. Japan Architect, 41 (2001): 7Toyo Ito: The New Real Architecture Exhibition, Tokyo. Perhaps most striking, however, is the differentiation between levels is the furniture designed by several different designers which through color, style, and layout becomes one of the most prominent identifying features of a particular floor. During the open competition and subsequent phase of basic designing, our primary effort was on demolishing the archetypal ideas of an art museum or library to reconstruct a new idea of architecture called "mediatheque" utilizing the state-of-the-art media.Ito, in creating the Sendai Mediatheque, acknowledged that it would be an institution devoted to accommodating changing technologies. 0000000995 00000 n
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Moreover, since the exact dimensions of the tubes vary from floor to floor, this variation, along with differentiation in the lighting colors between floors, adds a distinctive character to each level. The constant motion of people through the stairs and elevators, as well as the glow of light passing through these tubes creates a perceptual link between the floors, and the functions they house, which might otherwise have felt isolated from one another. "This project's importance is derived from its poetic imagery, Sendai Mediatheque embodies our proposal for a completely new concept of architecture. 0000000016 00000 n
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