The Implementation of the Concept of Atmosphere in Kazuyo Sejima’s Architecture
Abstract
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are founding partners of the firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) and renowned for their refined simplicity, spatial fluidity, and thoughtful integration into urban contexts. SANAA has developed the architectural ‘atmosphere’ as its design methodology and called it as a landscape (the contemporary scenery) for people. The objective of this paper is to explore the examples of ‘Atmosphere’ in their projects and SANAA’s design methodology to define Atmosphere and discover new design vocabulary for Atmosphere. As a methodology, the interpretation of SANAA's own statements and explanatory texts and exploration to find consistency in fragmentary and multi-faceted statements were conducted. In addition to the analysis of speech, in approaching the atmosphere as an embodied substance, it was attempted to trace and discover which architectural representations are closely related to the concept of atmosphere in the design result. The analysis result had shown that SANAA used three main approached for atmosphere as follows: 1) an expression strategy to reset the hierarchy, 2) an expression strategy of transparency and abstract simplicity to clearly express the architectural concept they want to convey, that is, the essential nature of the project, 3) a strategy of tricks to induce discovery. SANAA has been pursuing a new freedom and has incorporated multiple values into it and tries to embody the concept of atmosphere via the various representational strategies: hierarchical reconstitution of space, transparent and abstract simplification, and non-deceptive trick.
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Niedermayr, W., & Nishizawa, R. (2007). Kazuyo Sejima+ Ryue Nishizawa. Hatje Cantz Pub. 67-78.
Obrist, H. U. (2002). Sanaa on Kanazawa: roving curator Hans Ulrich Obrist catches up with Kazuyo Sejima of Sanaa Architects Group about Kanazawa Museum, Istanbul Bienale, the New Museum in Rome, and Prada Beauty. Images by Luisa Lambri. MAKE: The Magazine of Women's Art, (92), 34-36.
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Psarra, S., & Araguez, M. (2015). Spatial and social patterns of an urban interior: The architecture of SANAA. Space Syntax Laboratory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. 84-96.
Reisner, Y. (2019). Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic An Interview with Kazuyo Sejima. Architectural Design, 89(5), 30-37.
Rubio, A. P. (2007). Houses: Kazuyo Sejima+ Ryue Nishizawa. SANAA, Actar. 24-32.
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Sejima, K., & Nishizawa, R. (2004). Liquid Playgrounds. El Croqui, 121, 122, 10-12.
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Vaughan, J., & Ostwald, M. J. (2008). Approaching Euclidean limits: a fractal analysis of the architecture of Kazuyo Sejima. ANZAScA08, 285-294.
Vossnacke, A. (2010). EPFL Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne-Sanaa Kazuyo Sejima+ Ryue Nishizawa-Schwingender Saum. Baumeister, 107(4), 46.
Xiaofeng, S. J. C. (2012). Analysis on the SANAA's Okurayama Apartment. Huazhong Architecture, 10.
Yang, J. (2019). A Sense of Japanese Aesthetics: The Role of Materiality in the Work of SANAA. KnE Social Sciences, 26-39.
Yang, J. (2020). The Ambiguity of Visual Perception and Cloudiness in SANAA’s Architecture. Architecture and Culture, 1-18.
Yu, J. (2005). A study on the Construction method of Expressive Exterior-Envelope using an Optical Illusion effect by Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa. Seoul: Journal of AIK, 21(8), 119-126.
Yusu, W. F. X. (2009). To certain certainty of" uncertain"—Unscrambling architecural thought of Kazuyo Sejima&Ryue Nishizawa [J]. The Architect, 4.
Zhiwei, J. (2007). Study on the Design of Dwelling House by Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa [J]. Huazhong Architecture, 5.
Published
2021-12-01
How to Cite
JUNG, Chuloh; SHERZAD, Mohammed; ARAR, Mohammad.
The Implementation of the Concept of Atmosphere in Kazuyo Sejima’s Architecture.
International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering Innovation, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 4, p. 50-62, dec. 2021.
Available at: <https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/ijarei/article/view/16343>. Date accessed: 20 sep. 2024.
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