Eastern Promises: Round-Table und Vortrag

Zeitgenössische Architektur und Raumproduktion in Ostasien

Mi, 5.6.2013, 16:00–18:00 Uhr
Round-Table-Diskussion „Upcycling the City“ mit Marco Casagrande (Taipei), Roan Ching-yueh (Taipei), Moongyu Choi (Seoul), Go Hasegawa (Tokyo), KUU/ Kok-Meng Tan und Satoko Saeki (Shanghai), Ou Ning (Beijing), Julian Worrall (Tokyo) u. a.

MAK-Ausstellungshalle, Weiskirchnerstraße 3, 1010 Wien
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Mi, 5.6.2013, 19:00 Uhr
Vortrag von Go Hasegawa

Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien | IKA Lecture Room R211a

“Recent Work: Go Hasegawa”

After founding his own office, the young architect Go Hasegawa became established in Japanese architecture mainly through his conceptual reformulations of generic Japanese building types. He continues to produce surprising and formally reduced interpretations of qualities of every- day life and existing legal frameworks, in particular, with his projects for residential buildings.
Go Hasegawa’s particular way of dealing with the relation- ship between living space and outside space can be observed in the design for this apartment house in Tokyo’s Nerima district. The Nerima Apartment is compiled as a puzzle from different individual living units, so that “various lifestyles can find a place in tight quarters in Tokyo’s dense development,” as Hasegawa says.
In House in Komae, Go Hasegawa interprets a site’s constraints in such a way that they become advantages for its liveability. Only half of the property located in a residential neighborhood in the center of Tokyo can be built on. A souterrain under the garden expands the usable living area and integrally connects the subsequently elevated garden with the spatial texture of the house. A platform thus arises, which presents a transformed form of the verandas encircling traditional Japanese homes. It creates an open stage of private life in the close-meshed street space of the metropolis, inviting social interactions.

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