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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Japanese Cultural Center of D.R. Congo in Kinshasa, Congo by Keio University SFC Hironori Matsubara LaboratoryMay 12th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Keio University SFC Hironori Matsubara Laboratory This building has built by “grass-root grant aid fund” of Ministry of Foreign Affairs(Japan) in area of Gombe Institute of Pedagogique, the center part of Kinshasa city, D.R. Congo. The plan is 19m×19m and single story building. Semi-exterior penetrates the building and connects different rooms– training hall, classroom, office, tea ceremony room etc.  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects
 Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects We built 43 sheets of RC wall-pillars (210mm of thickness, 2420mm of height, and 1050mm of width) and join thm with beams in the top. These beams become the drainage in the rain season.The wooden roof trussed with three different spanshave same height.  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects A semi-exterior corridor and the outside courtyard will become the important environmental buffer and the place where people gather in the dry season. This building looks simple from outside, however the inside space has more complicated impression because the interior and exterior space are coexiting.  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects This building was built with small scale of governmental budget ( 10 million Japanese Yen) and by non-professional workers, so that the building has open and tolerant atomosphere.  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image Courtesy © Tokyo Matsubara and Architects  Image courtesy BMA Beijing Matsubara and Architects  Image courtesy BMA Beijing Matsubara and Architects  Image courtesy BMA Beijing Matsubara and Architects  Image courtesy BMA Beijing Matsubara and Architects  Image courtesy BMA Beijing Matsubara and Architects
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