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Transcript of Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
Tokyo
Barcelona
Toyo Ito
Honorary Fellowship of AIA
Honorary Fellowship of RIBA
Commissioner of Kumamoto Artpolis
Biography
1941
Born in Seoul Metropolitan City
1965-69
Graduated from The University of Tokyo,
Department of Architecture
Worked at Kiyonori Kikutake Architects and
Associates
1971
Started his own studio, Urban Robot (URBOT)
in Tokyo
1979
Changed its name to Toyo Ito & Associates,
Architects
Awards and Prizes
1986 Architecture Institute of Japan awards for “Silver Hut”
1992 33rd Mainich Art Award for Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
1998 Ministry of Education Award for the Encouragement of Arts for “Dome in Odate”
1999 Japan Art Academy Prize for “Dome in Odate”
2000 Accorded the Title “Academician” from The International Academy of Architecture
2000 The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from American Academy of Arts
and Letters
2001 Grand Prize of Good Design Award 2001 from Japan Industrial Design Promotion
Organization (JIDPO) for “Sendai Mediatheque”
2002 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 8th International Architecture Exhibition
NEXT at the Venice Biennale
2003 Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for “Sendai Mediatheque”
2004 XX ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for “Ripples” (furniture design)
2006 Royal Gold Medal from The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Public Building
Award for “Sendai Mediatheque”
2008 ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for the Stand Horm
2005 6th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts
2009 Medalla de Oro from Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
2010 2009 The Asahi Prize The 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu
TORRES PORTA FIRA
Location Barcelona, Spain
Period Hotel:2004.6 - 2010.4/Office:2006.4 - 2009.5
Structure reinforced concrete
Scale Hotel: 26 stories, 2 basement, 1penthouse
Office: 24 stories, 3 basement, 1penthouse
Site Area Hotel: 5,775.55m2 / Office: 4,801.55m2
Building Area Hotel: 4,801.08m2 / Office: 4,049.73m2
Total Floor
Area
Hotel: 34,688.10m2 / Office: 45,419.59m2
Magazine
Title
Pasages de Arquitectura y Critica 107/MARK #26
Image 1.
(http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/Project_Descript/2010-/2010-p_01/1-800.jpg)
Belle Vue Residences
Location Oxley walk, Singapore
Period 2006.03-2010.09
Structure reinforced concrete
Scale 5 stories, 1 basement
Site Area 23,003.40m2
Building
Area 8,368.49m2
Total
Floor
Area
32,204.76m2
Magazine
Title
GA Japan 107/GA Japan 95/GA Toyo Ito Recent
Project/
/a+u 467
Image 2.
(http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/Project_Descript/2010-/2010-p_02/1-800.jpg)
The Main Stadium for the World Games 2009 in
Kaohsiung
Location Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Period 2006.9~2009.1
Structure steel frame, reinforced concret
Scale 3 stories, 2 basements
Site Area 189,012.00m2
Building
Area
25,553.46m2
Total
Floor
Area
98,759.31m2
Image 3.
(http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/Project_Descript/2005-/2005-p_15/2-800.jpg)
Image 4.
(http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/Project_Descript/2005-/2005-p_15/4-800.jpg)
MIKIMOTO Ginza2
Location Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Period 2003.8~2005.11
Structur
e
steel freme + concrete, reinforced
concrete
Scale 9 stories , 1 basement
Site
Area
275.74m2
Building
Area
237.69m2
Total
Floor
Area
2,205.02m2
Image 5.
(http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/Project_Descript/2005-/2005-p_06/4-800.jpg)
Tower of Winds in Yokohama
Location Nishi-ku, Yokohama,
Kanagawa, Japan
Period 1986.3~1986.11
Structure steel frame
Scale―
Site Area―
Building Area 43.45m2
Total Floor Area―
Picture 1.
(http://www.toyo-
ito.co.jp/WWW/Project_Descript/1980-/1980-
p_08/main%20photo-800.jpg)
There used to be an old water tower and ventilation
ducts in front of the the Yokohama bus station was,
an anonymous, brutalist and made-of-concrete
structure .
An architectural competition was organized with the
idea of improving the first impression of visitors
arriving to this city by bus.
Picture 2.
The Tower of the Winds is located in front of Yokohama Bus
Terminal / googlemaps
()http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDAFuAmUnUI/AAAAAAAAFpo/sMDKcpFjqE4/s1600-
h/torre+vientos+copy.jpg)
Ito's proposal was to cover the tower with acrylic mirrors. A
metallic oval-cylindrical structure, 21 m in height and 9 x 6
section was installed around the tower, lined with a perforated
aluminum coating that reflects the sky during the day.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDADsAmUnRI/AAAAAAAAFpQ/8mC9p8df
rJY/s1600/torre+croqb+.jpg
Picture 3.
The oval cylinder geometry of the Tower of the Winds is distinguished
from the other volumes in the surroundings.
Photo courtesy of El Croquis.
Picture 4.
The tower is covered with a perforated
aluminum plate. Photo C. Zeballos (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDADYwmUnLI/AAAAAAAAF
og/cZNmPVKuN2U/s1600/DSCN5195.JPG)
Picture 5.
The same view at night . Photo C. Zeballos. (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDADZA
mUnMI/AAAAAAAAFoo/1bnFUAOTaVU/s1600/DSCN5316.JPG)
The tower became much more attractive at night, when 1300 lamps in
coordination with 12 rings offered a multicolor light show.
An electronic system recognizes the differences in wind speed and the sound
waves in the noise around and translates them into light and color codes. For
this reason, unlike a traditional arrangement of lights, this installation does not
follow a predetermined program or routine, and offers an ever-changing
spectacle of light and color.
For this reason, unlike a traditional arrangement of lights, this installation does not
follow a predetermined program or routine, and offers an ever-changing spectacle of
light and color.
Picture 6.
Light Sequence of the Tower of the Winds. Photos courtesy of El Croquis (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDADrwmUnQI/AAAAAAAAFpI/1YJdHk_t-lk/s1600/secuencia+torre+copy.jpg)
Picture 7. Floor plan of the Tower of the Winds. Image courtesy of El Croquis (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDAHsgmUnVI/AAAAAAAAFpw/hdH_-SwI7fI/s1600/planta+torre.jpg)
Video: http://youtu.be/LN36b61gxc4
The Eggs of Winds (1990)
Ito proposed a kind of "Building of Tomorrow", an "video gallery oudoors." There
are two versions of this, one in Brussels and the other in the Japanese suburb of
River City 21 in Tokyo.
It is a structure of a oval geometry -a recurring form in their designs at the time,
contrasting with right-angled parallelepiped volumes of its surrounding.
Picture 7. Schemes Egg of Winds. Pictures courtesy of The Sketch. (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDADZgmUnPI/AAAAAAAAFpA/V7-UgsFXkHs/s1600/huevo+vientoB.jpg)
This capsule is attached to a wall, suspended from the floor by metal legs, and gives the
impression of floating in the air, especially from a small public space located on the
mezzanine.
Picture 8.
Seen from the upper terrace, the ellipsoid gives the impression of being floating.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDALJgmUnWI/AAAAAAAAFp4/1WGwYM1ljhw/s1600/DSCN5102.JPG)
Picture 9-10. Day and night view of the Egg of Winds. Photo C. Zeballos (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDACJwmUnGI/AAAAAAAAFn4/ids5J7V3LNQ/s1600/_05_x3.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDACKAmUnII/AAAAAAAAFoI/G5PIROcdLnI/s1600/DSCN5093.JPG)
Using a coating similar to that of the Tower of Winds, this 16 x 8 m ellipsoid is covered
with a perforated aluminum plate below which liquid crystal screens displayed pictures
and news.
While in operation, the effect is very interesting: the images appeared as if they
were floating on a curved surface, almost like a hologram, very different from the
effect of the giant screens hung on the facades of buildings.
Picture 11.
Egg of winds. Photo courtesy of Philip Jodidio. (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDACKAmUnHI/AAAAAAAAFoA/DbgGOwzYybk/s1600/bta00452.jpg )
For Toyo Ito the wind and its meaning are very important, not only because his
architecture and especially his urban sculptures are characterized by lightness
and transparency, but because it interacts with the environment and the user,
making him aware of energy that surrounds it.
Picture 12.
Interesting formal contrast with the surrounding volumes. Photo C. Zeballos.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_J0XsQeUu1tE/SDACKQmUnJI/AAAAAAAAFoQ/slp2P836lhQ/s1600/DSCN5097.JPG)
References
Sendai mediatheque / Toyo Ito
Matter in the floating world [electronic resource] : conversations with leading
Japanese architects and designers / Blaine Brownell
http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/index/index_en.html
http://architecturalmoleskine.blogspot.com/2010/06/toyo-ito-tribute-to-winds.html
http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/ito.html
http://www.archdaily.com/tag/toyo-ito/
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/ito/tod/tod.html