Ja 108 Akihisa Hirata 2003-2017

Description

JA 108 is a special issue on architect Akihisa Hirata, surveying 15 years of his studio’s architectural production.

For Hirata, architecture is part of the living world. In his practice, he explores this notion through geometric systems, spatial design methods that incorporate diversity, and the implementation of concepts arising from research into organic connections—notably karamari (an “intertwined relationship”) and karamari-shiro (an “opportunity for karamari”). Working at various scales, he continues to propose new settings for human activities.

This issue introduces about 60 projects, including built architecture, installations, and unrealized proposals, dating from 2003 to the present. From one work to the next, he has developed new ideas and explored the realities of building architecture. We hope that our readers will find hints in these pages to aid in their own explorations of the architecture to come.

CONTENTS

Dialogue. Toward Jagged Diversity, Shohei Shigematsu and Akihisa Hirata

Monologue. The Wild and Savage Future of Architecture, Akihisa Hirata

Project Timeline

Works

• Art Museum & Library, Ota
• Tree-ness House
• Taipei Roofs
• Overlap House
• Itsukushima Roof
• Timber Foam
• Cloud of the Future
• Long House hotel version
• Taipei Complex
• Fermented House
• Kamaishi Nursery School
• Higashi-Totsuka Church
• Alps Tree
• Grobal Cave
• Häm
• Museum Forest of “Hill Valley”
• Higashi-Totsuka Church
• Kotoriku
• Cloud and Slope
• Invisible Lines
• Long Garden
  Soil
• Fermented Tower
• Kamaishi City Disaster Recovery Public Housing
• Taipei Complex previous version
• LEXUS -amazing flow-
• Mori Trust Garden TORA4
• Kikusui Elementary and Junior High School
• Home-for-All
• Flow_er
• Coil
• Hotel J
• Photosynthesis
• Bloomberg Pavilion
• Garden within Grid within Garden
• Long House
• Yoshioka Library
• Foam Form
• Prism Liquid
• Alp
• One Roof Apartment
• Fermented City
• Flame Frame
• Animated Knot
• Pavilion C
• Pleated Sky
• Architecture Farm
• Sarugaku
• ORDER
• House of House (House T)
• House S
• Gallery S
• Chair “Csh”
• Bag for F
• Pleats Principle
• Project K
• R-Minamiaoyama
• Masuya
  House H
• Annaka Art Forum