ArchShowcase 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. Sogo Kagu in Mie, Japan by KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATESMay 13th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES The space was designed as a workshop for a furniture manufacturer who aims to propose a new lifestyle integrated with state-of-the-art technology. The company is strong in the molding of urethane. In order to respect their merit, we put up a soft structure in which urethane came at the center.
First, we wrapped the steel structure with urethane foam and covered both sides with two membranes, which came from an idea of forming a soft and multilayered exterior like an animal skin. We applied ETFE to the outer side to cope with heat, and transparent PVC to the inside with some mesh. For the main structure of steel, we sought a robustness of a living creature, which came into being as a mesh-shaped structural system based on a latticed combination of small parts. In the interior, pieces of plywood of 25-mm-thick were put together to express a blurred space like a fractus cloud. Contact KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES
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