Born, raised and based in Osaka (just like Tadao Ando), architect Satoshi Higashijima has a unique approach to designing houses Continue Reading…
House in Wakakusa
Photo © Kanta Ushio
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Ray Kappe’s Scheimer House, Manhattan Beach 1988
Photo © Scott Mayoral
サザン・カリフォルニア・インスティチュート・オブ・アーキテクチャー (南カリフォルニア建築大学) 創立者の一人、レイモンド・キャピーが設計したマンハッタンビーチの家が売りに出ている Continue Reading…
Abre Etteh = アブレイ・エテー
© Abre Etteh/ Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2009
Recently we came across Abre Etteh‘s work and were immediately impressed not only by its quality, but also by Etteh’s unique approach to architecture Continue Reading…
House L by Shuichiro Yoshida
Photo © Hisashi Wada
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Apparatus of viewing
© Abre Etteh
Through studies of Charles Ginnever’s sculpture Rashomon, this project explores the concept of animate space.
Rashomon, an open geometric form devoid of right angles or parallel members, presents an intriguing scenario where only the rarest of witnesses could recognize it as the same work from one position to the next.
In connection to this, Sergie Eisentstien commented on the animated body’s ‘plasmaticness’; this is its ability and perhaps willingness to morph. Rashomon affirms philosopher David Morris’ concept of our perception of space as rooted in movement. Movement around the sculpture reveals space as plastic and a subjective experience filtered through our perception. Rashomon`s form captures the plasmaticness of animated space, which Eisentstein saw as the essence of animation.
The approach to the building involved an intimate relationship between artist and environment through movement. The building frames a fluid space constantly in flux based on the position of the viewer. The building acts as an apparatus of viewing consisting of a continuum of views.
アブレイ・エテーは、もともとアニメーションと彫刻に興味があったそうだ。視覚と動きをテーマにしたこの作品からも、そのことがよくわかる。
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S-House Tomitsuka
Photo © Hiroshi Ueda
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Camera Obscura
© Abre Etteh
We have always been fascinated by light. It has been seen as a symbol of goodness and knowledge.
This experiment is envisaged in a 1950′s, 4 bed roomed, former city council house in Leeds, UK to serve as a place to sleep, work and read.
Two roof lights and a window are fitted with converging lenses on blinds that project the changing textures of the sky unto the muted surfaces of the room.
The vividness of the projection depends on the strength of the light at a certain time of day.
As the sun traces a path across the sky, the different apertures project an image into the room in stark contrast with its flat planes.This proposal is an attempt to pull the user into the depths of the sky.
This is my dream.
これは、英国の若手建築家アブレイ・エテーが自分の小さなアパートをもとにし、「寝る、仕事をする、本を読む」ための空間をケーススタディしたもの。詳細はリンク先にて御覧あれ。
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