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Sumit Singhal
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.

Fontana in Numazu, Japan by N Maeda Atelier

 
June 24th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Norisada Maeda

Cut through air. 
Italian painter Lucio Fontana had left works in which he would just rip up blank canvases with palette knives.

 The implication of it is that the act of ripping leads to an ex-post discovery of a situation where 
‘tensile force is exerted upon the canvas surface’ which was up to then not visible to the eye.

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

  • Architects: N Maeda Atelier 
  • Project: Fontana
  • Location: Numazu Shizuoka, Japan
  • Site area: 365.25m2
  • Total floor area: 181.90m2
  • Function: Private residence
  • Structural system: Steel Structure 2F
  • Finish of construction: November 2005

Major materials

  • Exterior: Metal finish
  • Interior: gypsum plaster board finish

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Project ‘FONTANA ’involves replacing this ‘canvas’ with ‘air’.

 The originally homogeneous volume of air on the site is ripped up by 7 arched devices(GARDEN). 
‘Nature’ would flow through these cuts inside to draw ever-changing contour lines

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

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