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Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for the Hida Furukawa Station Eastern Development, a community centre topped with a bowl-like roof in the town of Hida in Japan.
The multi-purpose building will be set alongside the main railway station in the town, which is located in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
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Sou Fujimoto unveils Japanese community centre covered with bowl-like roof
Architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a community centre topped with a bowl-like roof in the town of Hida, Japan.
Named the Hida Furukawa Station Eastern Development, the multi-purpose building will be located alongside the main railway station in the town in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto has designed a circular multipurpose building in Hida
Sou Fujimoto Architects has designed the 21,300-square-metre building to contain shops, a spa and exhibition spaces, alongside research facilities for a local university, student accommodation and an all-weather playing field.
These various functions will be covered by a large circular roof structure that resembles the shape of a bowl, supported on slender white columns.
The roof rises towards the edge of the building
"The development is a vast landscape symbolizing Hida's past and future, its main plaza taking the shape of a bowl, or vessel, in Japanese called utsuwa," said the studio.
"The unique architectural space will give visitors a better awareness of the majestic nature of Hida."
A plaza will be located at its centre
The building's various units will be arranged around its edge, encircling a central plaza positioned where the roof dips to meet the ground.
Punctuated with numerous circular openings, the roof will double as a walkable grass-covered park.
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"The utsuwa is a shed-like roof over crisscrossing paths, inspired by Hida's traditional townscapes," said the studio. "It will be a destination that it is fun to walk through."
"The paths continue to the rooftop where people will go, drawn by their vision of the sky," it continued.
Enclosed structures are located around the edge of the building
Established by Fujimoto in 2000, Sou Fujimoto Architects is one of Japan's best-known architecture studios.
Along with the cultural centre, it is designing a second building in the town of Hida that also has a walkable roof and will house Hida Takayama University.
Another recent project by the studio is the House of Music in Budapest, which is topped with a large rounded roof similar to those featured in the pair of projects in Hida.
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Sou Fujimoto unveils Japanese community centre covered with bowl-like roof
Architect Sou Fujimoto has revealed the design for a community centre topped with a bowl-like roof in the town of Hida, Japan.
Named the Hida Furukawa Station Eastern Development, the multi-purpose building will be located alongside the main railway station in the town in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto has designed a circular multipurpose building in Hida
Sou Fujimoto Architects has designed the 21,300-square-metre building to contain shops, a spa and exhibition spaces, alongside research facilities for a local university, student accommodation and an all-weather playing field.
These various functions will be covered by a large circular roof structure that resembles the shape of a bowl, supported on slender white columns.
The roof rises towards the edge of the building
"The development is a vast landscape symbolizing Hida's past and future, its main plaza taking the shape of a bowl, or vessel, in Japanese called utsuwa," said the studio.
"The unique architectural space will give visitors a better awareness of the majestic nature of Hida."
A plaza will be located at its centre
The building's various units will be arranged around its edge, encircling a central plaza positioned where the roof dips to meet the ground.
Punctuated with numerous circular openings, the roof will double as a walkable grass-covered park.
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"The utsuwa is a shed-like roof over crisscrossing paths, inspired by Hida's traditional townscapes," said the studio. "It will be a destination that it is fun to walk through."
"The paths continue to the rooftop where people will go, drawn by their vision of the sky," it continued.
Enclosed structures are located around the edge of the building
Established by Fujimoto in 2000, Sou Fujimoto Architects is one of Japan's best-known architecture studios.
Along with the cultural centre, it is designing a second building in the town of Hida that also has a walkable roof and will house Hida Takayama University.
Another recent project by the studio is the House of Music in Budapest, which is topped with a large rounded roof similar to those featured in the pair of projects in Hida.
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Sou Fujimoto creates House of Music in Budapest park "as a continuation of the natural environment"
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed a museum dedicated to music topped with an undulating roof punctuated by trees in Budapest's City Park.
Named House of Music, the 9,000-square-metre museum is dedicated to telling the history of music over the past 2,000 years.
Sou Fujimoto's House of Music is located in Budapest's City Park
The museum, which was built on the site of the Hungexpo Offices, is surrounded by trees within Budapest's City Park.
Fujimoto designed the building, which is wrapped in a glass wall and topped by a large overhanging roof, to mimic the feeling of being under a tree canopy.
The museum was designed to evoke a canopy of trees
"We were enchanted by the multitude of trees in the city park and inspired by the space created by them," said Fujimoto.
"Whilst the thick and rich canopy covers and protects its surroundings, it also allows the sun's rays to reach the ground. I envisaged the open floor plan, where boundaries between inside and outside blur, as a continuation of the natural environment."
The roof is punctured by numerous holes
The building's roof is punctuated by 100 openings, some of which contain trees, while others create lightwells that allow natural light into the building.
On the underside of the roof, 30,000 geometric shapes designed to evoke tree leaves have been set in the ceiling.
The ceiling is covered in 30,000 metal leaves
The House of Music has three storeys that were created to reflect "the three movements of a musical score".
Its park-level ground floor is entirely surrounded by 94 custom-manufactured panels made of glass. The largest of these panels is 12 metres tall.
A glass wall surrounds the ground floor
This largely open ground floor space contains two concert halls. A smaller venue will predominantly be used for lectures and workshops, while a glass-walled auditorium with 320 seats will be used for musical performances.
A large basement level will contain all of the museum's main gallery spaces including a permanent exhibition named Sound Dimensions – Musical Journeys in Space and Time, which focuses on the history of European music.
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The institution's first temporary exhibition will focus on key moments in Hungarian pop music from the 1950s to the 1990s.
A hemispherical sound dome, where up to 60 people can experience 360-degree sound from a network of 31 loudspeakers, is also on this level.
A large spiral staircase connects the three floors
Above the main level, the first floor is located within the roof structure. This level contains a multimedia library and archive of Hungarian pop music, as well as classrooms and office spaces.
The three floors are connected by a large feature spiral staircase.
The museum was created as part of the Liget Budapest Project
The House of Music was completed as part of the ambitious Liget Budapest Project, which will see several museums built in Budapest's 122-hectare City Park.
The skateboard-ramp-shaped Museum of Ethnography designed by Hungarian firm Napur Architect is under construction nearby and SANAA has designed the National Gallery of Hungary for a site within the park.
The photography is by Palkó György.
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Sou Fujimoto Architects designs walkable rooftop for rural Japanese university
An accessible rooftop that curves to meet the ground will distinguish the Hida Takayama University, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects is designing in Hida City, Japan.
The private university, which is expected to open in April 2024, is set to be built on a rural site in the town that is located in the mountainous Gifu Prefecture.
Sou Fujimoto Architects is designing Hida Takayama University in Japan
Sou Fujimoto Architects' design comprises two curved buildings that will be separated by a courtyard. The larger of the two structures will be topped by the giant accessible rooftop described by the studio as "an open hill".
The university, which is aimed at postgraduates and working adults, will also have 11 other campuses throughout Japan.
The university will be topped by an accessible curved roof
According to Sou Fujimoto Architects, the design references the surrounding mountainous landscape and follows the concept of being "open to beyond".
"Surrounded by beautiful mountains, the entire city of Hida is a large learning plaza where people gather and talk," explained the studio's founder Sou Fujimoto.
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The studio hopes the university will revitalise the rural site, which has a shrinking population, by drawing international attention.
"I would like to create a campus where students, faculty members, and local people can freely interact and connect with the world beyond," Fujimoto said.
In the first visuals released by the studio, Hida Takayama University's undulating roofscape is shown with a textured white finish. It is elevated on wooden pillars that are visible inside the building and separated by tall expanses of glass.
The corridors will be designed to double as usable spaces
Sou Fujimoto Architects will also design the campus so that all of its circulatory spaces and corridors double as a library or places for meeting and learning.
The courtyard that separates the campus will be planted with trees in an attempt to draw nature into the building.
A white undulating rooftop is also the focal point of the House of Hungarian Music, which Sou Fujimoto Architects is currently developing for a leafy site in Budapest's City Park. The roof will be punctured by almost 100 holes through which trees will grow.
Hida Takayama University is not the first university building designed by the studio, which was founded by Fujimoto in 2000. Elsewhere, it designed the stacked learning centre for the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, a library for Musashino Art University in Japan and a tree-filled building for the Université Paris-Saclay in France.
The visuals are courtesy of Sou Fujimoto Architects.
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Studio Drift and Sou Fujimoto explore rhythms of nature with Basel installation
Dutch design office Studio Drift and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto have designed an installation where flower-like lamps rise and fall within a "forest" of wooden beams.
Occupying the entrance to this year's edition of Design Miami/Basel, the installation combined two works: Shy Synchrony, by Studio Drift, and Forest of Space, by Fujimoto.
Studio Drift's Shylights rise and fall overhead. Photo is by Ossip van Duivenbode
Shy Synchrony showcased Shylight, a suspended textile lamp that is programmed to continuously rise and fall, creating an opening and closing motion that is reminiscent of flowers blossoming.
Here, dozens of these lights were grouped together and choreographed so that they moved in synchronisation.
These textile lamps open and close like flowers as they move
Studio Drift's aim was to encourage people to be more aligned with the rhythms of the natural world. It is a theme that often features in the studio's work, with past examples including Franchise Freedom, which featured a swarm of drones.
"Natural movements remind the body of how to adapt and align with our environment," said Lonneke Gordijn, who leads Studio Drift with partner Ralph Nauta.
"In this time of disconnect and climate crisis, we are in desperate need of aligning with each other to create a vision that will secure the future of our planet," she stated.
Sou Fujimoto's Forest of Space frames the installation
Forest of Space was designed specifically to frame this dynamic performance. Hundreds of wooden beams were arranged vertically, creating a series of curved objects that together formed an ellipse.
Positioned at an angle, these wooden elements doubled as seats, giving visitors a place to take in the artwork.
Fujimoto wanted to create a place where people could "engage in conversations about the past, present, or future of architecture, and about urban settlements and the natural environment".
These curving seats are made from hundreds of timber lengths
On show at the Messe Basel exhibition centre from 21 to 26 September, the installation was presented by Superblue, a new initiative that aims to create opportunities for large-scale, immersive art installations.
The project was a collaboration with Therme Mind, a joint venture between developer Therme Group and neuroscience expert MindMaze exploring how neurotechnology can be used in art and design to promote mental and physical wellbeing.
The space hosted panel discussions and workshops during Design Miami/Basel
The involvement of Therme Mind led Studio Drift to bring a new dimension to the Shylights, which have previously been presented at Dutch Design Week and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Unlike previous installations, visitors to Shy Synchrony are taken on a guided meditation experience.
As they arrive, they are given a headset that measures their heart rate activity, brain relaxation patterns and facial movements.
As they experience the installation, the data gathered is processed by an algorithm and fed directly into the control system for the Shylights, guiding their movement patterns to encourage users into "deeper states of consciousness".
"By integrating Therme Mind's neurotechnology, Shy Synchrony creates an experience where audiences can become a part of the artwork, observe their mental activity and explore the conditions that support their own mind-body wellbeing," said Mikolaj Sekutowicz, CEO and co-founder of Therme Art.
Workshops and guided meditation also took place in the space
The space doubled as a venue for panel discussions and workshops hosted by Therme Art.
The headline event, titled Art and Architecture as Healing: Shaping a Mental Health Economy, explored architecture's potential to improve mental health.
Photography is bySimon Bielander, unless otherwise indicated. Main image is by Ossip van Duivenbode.
Design Miami/Basel took place from 21 to 26 September 2021. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
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Sou Fujimoto creates undulating virtual installation in London
Visitors to this year's London Design Festival can use mixed-reality glasses to manipulate their walk through Medusa, a virtual installation by architect Sou Fujimoto.
Created by the Japanese architect Fujimoto in collaboration with mixed reality studio Tin Drum, the virtual structure has been installed at the V&A Museum.
Up to 50 guests at a time can put on a pair of mixed-reality glasses and explore the experimental architectural forms designed by Fujimoto.
As they move through Medusa, the dynamic structure "changes and evolves based on the movement of its admirers".
Medusa responds to the movements of its audience
"Visitors will be able to simultaneously observe this piece of virtual architecture, floating and moving inside of the space that is confined by the gallery itself," said Yoyo Munk, Tin Drum's chief science officer.
"The structure is observing the entire group and changing itself based on what it's observing about the audience behaviours, rather than any individual," he told Dezeen.
"It explores the contrast between the individual and the collective."
Tin Drum drew on the science of bioluminescence to inform the design
The installation takes its name from the mythological figure Medusa as well as the zoological term for a jellyfish, in a conflation of myth and science that sits at the core of the design.
"We liked the idea of a figure of life that finds this balance between something that is beautiful, attractive and dangerous," explained Munk.
The studio also used the primal attraction to light and underwater bioluminescence to inform the evolving dynamic structure.
"We drew a lot of inspiration from natural light structures like the aurora borealis (also know as the Northern Lights) and our connection to light sources," recalled Monk.
"When we look at an aurora borealis, we share some commonality with the neural circuitry that leads prey and so forth to be consumed."
Medusa was designed to provoke individuals to play, interact and follow the lights as they walk through the virtual installation.
According to Monk, both Tin Drum and Fujimoto were most interested in the potential of using light as an architectural medium.
"What's exciting for all of us is this idea that you could construct structures that had no physical form and existed only as light being projected into the eyes," said Monk.
"We get the sense of a space that has a design structure that exists in a spatially explorable sense – that has the ability to change our perceived environment and the way that we feel and explore while having no physical form."
Fujimoto established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. Although he is best known for his buildings, he has worked on a number of installations. In 2017, he created a series of abstract bookshelves made from thin steel rods for Design Miami/Basel.
For the fashion brand COS, Fujimoto used spotlights, mirrors and sound to create an immersive installation that responds to visitors' movements.
London Design Festival 2021 takes place from 18 to 26 September. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
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Designers and architects redesign the Louis Vuitton trunk for Louis 200
Two hundred creatives, including architect Sou Fujimoto and designer Samuel Ross, have reinterpreted the classic Louis Vuitton trunk in celebration of what would have been the fashion designer's 200th birthday.
The creatives were given free rein to redesign the trunk as part of Louis 200, an initiative that was launched at the beginning of August to mark the bicentennial birthday of French designer Louis Vuitton, who founded the fashion house.
Top: Mr Flower Fantastic created a trunk covered in plants. Above: Peter Marino strapped his black trunk in leather harnesses
Collaborators were encouraged to use any medium to create their own 50 by 50 by 100-centimetre trunk, which is nearly the same size as the original trunk Vuitton developed in the 1850s.
The resulting designs range from architect Peter Marino's 'Houdini Trunk' (above), which has tight-fitting leather straps, to a floral sculpture (top) by multidisciplinary artist Mr Flower Fantastic.
The brand hopes that the initiative "creates a bridge between Louis, the pioneering trunk maker and packer, and all the visionaries" who were asked to redesign the trunks.
Sou Fujimoto's trunk is informed by his well-known residential work House N
Japanese architect Fujimoto designed a trunk informed by his House N, a starkly geometric white house punctuated by windows and openings in Oita, Japan.
His trunk makes use of a neutral white paint colour palette, as well as birch plywood blocks that represent the windows in the residential building.
"The simple volume of the trunk has been re-surfaced to create an impression of interiority," Fujimoto told Dezeen.
"By applying a white surface and leaving only a few 'openings' the previously simple and flat box achieves depth and volume," he said.
Amande Haeghen designed her trunk as a window into the human soul
Elsewhere, artist Amande Haeghen drew on the trunk's role as a vessel for keeping sentimental items safe.
"I found inspiration in the symbolic definition of a trunk that spans ages and eras – a material witness to immaterial events like all the secrets and all the essential things you bring with you on a trip," Haeghen told Dezeen.
The French artist used a wooden trunk and a plaster base as the foundation for her design, which took two months to produce.
Haeghen cut a body-shaped piece of wood from the top of the trunk to act as a "window" into the box. Inside, she created a sculpture made of sandstone, glass and porcelain plates stacked on top of one another.
"I placed the structure inside the trunk like a window to a soul, as if you can truly see inside someone and analyse the pages of his memory and history," she explained.
Haeghen then thermoformed layers of glass on the porcelain layer to finish the piece.
Mr Flower Fantastic's Legacy Garden trunk can be seen in Louis Vuitton store windows around the world for the month of August
Over the course of the month of August, the trunks will be showcased in different ways across Louis Vuitton stores around the world. In some stores, digital screens will display the trunks in a video loop.
In other stores, the trunks will be stacked on top of each other to form a giant, robot-like figure. This is a reference to the designer's penchant for stacking trunks in his windows.
Samuel Ross used neon orange steel for his skeletal reinterpretation of the trunk
Louis Vuitton has launched several other creative initiatives to mark the founder's birthday, including a video game that allows users to collect NFTs designed by artist Beeple.
The trunk isn't the only Louis Vuitton accessory to have undergone a makeover. Artist Jeff Koons teamed up with the brand to create a collection of bags that repurposed some of the world's most famous paintings.
The team at Louis Vuitton also re-launched two of its monogram handbags with built-in flexible OLED digital screens at its Cruise 2020 show.
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Sou Fujimoto designs Shenzhen exhibition complex with transparent facade
A transparent facade will offer glimpses inside the Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall in China, which is being designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects and Donghua Chen Studio.
The 90,000-square-metre proposal was the winning entry of an international competition for an exhibition complex in Shenzhen's Futian District.
It was designed by Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects with Chinese office Donghua Chen Studio to showcase the fact that Shenzhen is open to foreign businesses.
Sou Fujimoto Architects and Donghua Chen Studio have designed an exhibition complex in Shenzhen
"The Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall will be built into a world-class, China-leading, and large-scale modernized exhibition complex with Shenzhen's characteristics," explained the studios.
"It will become a 'window' displaying and publicizing the achievement of reform and opening-up, a site welcoming significant guests, an institution collecting evidence and research materials, a landmark presenting an innovative and international modernization of the city, and a carrier showcasing the public culture and urban civilization of Shenzhen."
It will have a transparent facade
Externally, the Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall will have a layered, transparent facade.
According to the studios, this was designed to establish a relationship between the building and its surroundings and to echo its focus on the opening-up of China to foreign businesses.
Walkways will link its internal facilities
Inside, the building will contain an exhibition area, educational spaces and research facilities. These will be linked by walkways that weave through a large lobby lined with trees.
Sou Fujimoto Architects and Donghua Chen Studio's intention is that this evokes a "garden in a box" and offers visitors a "village-like, fascinating indoor space".
Once complete, the Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall will form a part of the Shenzhen Ten Cultural Facilities of New Era – a master plan involving the construction of 10 cultural buildings across the city.
Other venues include a science museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, an opera house by Jean Nouvel and a cultural centre by MAD and ECADI. SANAA has also designed a maritime museum with a cloud-like structure as part of the plan.
Trees will be dotted throughout
Sou Fujimoto Architects was established by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto in 2000. Another new proposal by the studio is a seaside pavilion in Haikou, China.
It recently renovated a hotel in Japan by removing its internal floors and adding a grassy hill containing cabins and it is nearing completion on the House of Hungarian Music in Budapest.
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