Assignment 5
Compartive AR 321
NAME : SULIMAN BIN SHIHON ID NUM : 1010373
DR : FAROOQ MOFTE ARCH : AHMAD FALLATH
Minimalist Architectural Steps include - Abstraction - Materials - Function
Minimalism
describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. Minimalism is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.
Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum
The building is intended as a center for exhibiting and studying the culture of the Age of Tumuli, and my proposal was to create an environmental museum that incorporates not only the Tumuli scattered around the site but the natural environment of the burial mounds. "/Tadao Ando
Chikatsu-Asuka, an area in the southern part of Osaka Prefecture, has one of the best collections of tumuli (kofun) in Japan. There are over 200 mounds including four imperial tombs, the site of the tomb of Prince Shotoku and the tomb of Ono-no-Imoko. It was an important place at the start of Japanese history.
Architect: Tadao Ando Year(s) of construction: 1991-1994 Land Area: 5,925 m2 Floor Area: 3,407 m2 Location: Osaka, Japan
Bibliotheque Nationale Paris
Designed by Dominique Perrault and finished in 1996, ​ was a part of President Mitterand’s The Grands Project (a program which set out to revitalize the eastern part of Paris). It has 4 striking towers which house 12,000,000 volumes, with reference and research libraries in the central podium.
The Parc de la Villette By Bernard Tschumi Architects one of the largest parks in Paris northeastern edge of the 19th arrondissement. The park houses one of the largest concentration of cultural venues in Paris, including the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (City of Science and Industry), Europe's largest science museum, three major concert venues and the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris.