Tropicana Jan-Feb 2018 #116 A Start from the Heart

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THE HOME | natural selection Hoshakuji Station, Tochigi, Japan, Staircase View. Much consideration is given to the setting in which his work is developed and it all starts with what Kuma calls “a conversation”. In a video interview for Arch Daily, Kuma reveals his methodology – walking the site, feeling out the reality of the place, and sensing its energy. The results have been astounding. Standing out among them is the Folk Art Museum in Hangzhou, China, which has been stepped against the sloping terrain, giving it the appearance of tumbling down the hillside from the forested peak. This melding with surroundings hasn’t always been his position. Like many young architects finding their feet, Kuma’s early style was informed by experimentation and his initial grounding in the history of European and American schools of architecture. An architecture graduate and professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, ironically it was while studying at Columbia University in New York that Kuma was to discover a newfound respect for the traditions of Japanese architecture. This was furthered when his firm took to the bucolic Japanese countryside to spend their time learning from the country’s master craftsmen. At a time when the Japanese economy was struggling, this handson experience proved invaluable. It is this reinterpretation of traditional practices for the 21st century that has marked Kuma’s practice out from others and can be seen in the use of materials and his manipulation of them. A collaboration with Czech lighting brand Lasvit, for example, took the ancient Japanese technique of preserving timber by charring called yakisugi and used it to fashion a unique cracking effect on the blown glass of its line of pendant lamps. Kuma and his team also favour the use of natural materials like stone and wood. For Kuma, wood is the material of the 21st century due to its strength, flexibility and ability to age and be replaced. His firm has used timber extensively and in innovative ways: Moulded to form the eaves of Hoshakuji Station in Tochigi, as a latticed grid around the enigmatic Sunny Hills cake shop in Tokyo, or layering the facade of University of Tokyo’s computing facility like golden fish scales. The latter used the art of repetition to create something quite mesmerizing. TM | january/february 2018 44
NATURAL SELECTION | THE HOME Sunnyhills cake shop in Aoyama, Tokyo. THE joint system in the wood lattice is used in making shoji paper doors and is called Jiigoku Gumi. despite its modern look it’s a traditional method used in Japanese architecture. 45 january/february 2018 | TM
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