MAKUHARI BAY NEW TOWN- architect: Steven Holl Location: Chiba, Japan Date: 1992- 03/01/1996 PROGRAM: 190 units of housing, retail and public facilities CLIENT: Mitsui Fudosan Group SIZE: 27,601 sf
Water & Sunlight Reflecting House
"The new town of Makuhari is sited on a dredged fill at the rim of Tokyo Bay. Our concept inter-relates two distinct types: silent heavy weight buildings and active lightweight structures. The silent buildings shape urban space and passage with apartments entered via inner garden courts. The concrete bearing walls have thick facades and a rhythmic sequence of openings. Slightly inflected according to sunlight they gently bend space and passage. Celebration of natural phenomena is taken up by the lightweight "activist" forms. Individuated "sounds" invade the heavyweight "silence" of the bracketing buildings. Inspired by Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the semi-public inner gardens and the perspective arrangement of activist houses form an inner journey. "
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