Under One Roof Kengo Kuma

The roof transfigures like origami according to the function underneath and creates faces responding to light and shadow.

Under one roof kengo kuma. Kengo kumahas completed a new campus building for epfl in lausanne switzerland titled under one roof the name addresses the vast pitched roof that stretches 235 meters to provide an oversized. The project was named under one roof in reference to a japanese saying that regards many different peoples collaborating. Photograph by michel denance. This incredible building bloomed out of an international competition held in 2012 that called for three pavilions which would independently host the school s arts and science pavilion technology and information gallery and montreux jazz café.

For the structure and the exterior we used timbers that are commonly found in switzerland in order to create space with local warmth. There is a japanese saying living under one roof which means various and different individuals get together and team up and artlab is exactly the architectural translation of this expression. 2017 12 26 image 3 of 42 from gallery of under one roof kengo kuma associates. He is the author of several books including anti object and kyokai.

There is a japanese saying living under one roof which means various and different individuals get together and team up and artlab is exactly the architectural translation of this expression. A public private partnership brings science and art together under one roof the japanese architectural firm kengo kuma associates together with holzer kobler architekturen from zurich won the architectural design competition launched in 2012 to develop cosandey square at epfl. A japanese technique for articulating space. View more view full description under one roof kengo kuma associates.

Back in 2012 kengo kuma and associates together with holzer kobler architekturen won the architectural design competition to develop cosandey squareat the ecole polytechnique federale de lausanne.