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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. Secondary Landscape in Shibuya, Japan by Mount Fuji Architects StudioMarch 6th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Mount Fuji Architects Studio Assignment： to produce a creative saloon for prospective beauty-experts on the roof of 40(or more)-year-old building located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio
 Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio The roof was irregularly-shaped in accordance with building regulation. And on it, many kinds of equipment are scattered at random. What we did was roughly covering the roof with tough plates of western red cedar (2“6”)The cover protects the time-weakened equipment and waterproof layer, and what is more, creates a “landscape” which is like polygonal hill.
 Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio In a mega city like Tokyo, natural landscape is totally covered up with buildings and scarcely be seen. What we see instead is latent “secondary landscape” formed with a series of building roof. Our project just brought everybody to realize this fact by this project.  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio Architects are principally expected to build things on land. Oddly enough, on this particular occasion, we create a land on building  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio  Image Courtesy Mount Fuji Architects Studio
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