The last Tuesday in Tokyo I managed to get to Toto gallery and subsequently their bookshop.
They were displaying some works by Christian Kerez.
The arched ceiling gives different patterns inside, but it was difficult to see from the small openings.
There was another gallery on the floor above. To get to it you had to go outside unto a little courtyard and along a somewhat shaky ramp.
This awesome model is the Social Housing in Paraisopolis. The plan chosen was to place the different units in a random cluster pattern. That must have taken ages to plan out. And on a sloping terrain too.
The little units all have different entrances and the clusters are all separated from each other for easier access. There are even tiny courtyards.
Highrise in Zhengzhou 2. This one is much more exciting in my eyes. All the columns are placed at different angles again mimicking a bamboo forest. Awesome!
After this I went to the Toto bookshop in the hopes of finding either the CAt portfolio that Eric managed to get there or that elusive GA'81 magazine with Sanbuichi Hiroshi's stuff. They had it in the reading room, but not on sale. Alas. No portfolios neither.
I decided to go home via a short trip to Shibuya - somehow I forgot to go there the entire month even though it was like 15 minutes from where I lived.
This caught my eye while I was descending an escalator in the book store. Yes, it is. All proper with Gena and Shapoklyak and everything.
This also caught my eye, but for a different reason. I'd have bought it for my sis. but it's not like she can read Japanese. Anna, this photo is dedicated to you :)
They were displaying some works by Christian Kerez.
Holcim Competence Center model. It has these cool winged support joints (or whatever the proper name is).
I really like how the light shines through all the cheese holes :) I think the concept was to subtract tube shapes placed at different angles from the volume. Thus - the cheese appearance.
I also like how all the columns inside are just placed completely randomly.
This one is Swiss Re Next, I believe. Another cool model. The huge support column-things are also staircases. I could never even imagine the formulas used to calculate the loads for these.
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. I like the cool clean lines. Fancy.
There was another gallery on the floor above. To get to it you had to go outside unto a little courtyard and along a somewhat shaky ramp.
This awesome model is the Social Housing in Paraisopolis. The plan chosen was to place the different units in a random cluster pattern. That must have taken ages to plan out. And on a sloping terrain too.
Main street.
Highrise in Zhengzhou 1. The trusses form a kind of skirt, which is really neat. But inside it's the usual column system with more columns at the bottom levels for dded support.
After this I went to the Toto bookshop in the hopes of finding either the CAt portfolio that Eric managed to get there or that elusive GA'81 magazine with Sanbuichi Hiroshi's stuff. They had it in the reading room, but not on sale. Alas. No portfolios neither.
I decided to go home via a short trip to Shibuya - somehow I forgot to go there the entire month even though it was like 15 minutes from where I lived.
Of course I went to the 109 building. As that was supposedly where girls shop. Lots of cute girly stuff there. Even a wig shop on one of the basement floors.
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