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Architecture Public Space

Public Void

KAIT Plaza by Ishigami

Concebido como un área semiexterior, el proyecto del estudio japonés de Junya Ishigami es a la vez un edificio y una plaza, y dota al campus universitario de un gran espacio polivalente.

Designed as a semioutdoor space, the project by the Japanese studio of Junya Ishigami is at the same time building and plaza, and gives the campus a large multipurpose area.

Tras inaugurar en 2008 los talleres para el KAIT (Instituto de Tecnología de Kanagawa en Atsugi) ciudad próxima a Tokio, el centro universitario no dudó en plantear un nuevo proyecto a la firma japonesa dirigida por Junya Ishigami. En esta ocasión, la propuesta responde a dos necesidades fundamentales: dar a los estudiantes un nuevo lugar de reunión, diferente a las otras zonas de descanso del campus, y dotar a la universidad de un espacio polivalente donde acoger todo tipo de eventos. El resultado es un vacío semiexterior que configura una plaza pública para el disfrute de los estudiantes. Rodeado de altos edificios educativos, el volumen busca ajustarse a la escala humana y se adapta suavemente al terreno mediante un tapiz continuo que invita a los visitantes a apropiarse del espacio al gusto, mientras que una ondulante cubierta se despliega a poca altura sobre él, tensando las relaciones entre los planos de suelo y techo. La cubierta lleva hasta sus últimas consecuencias la definición de versatilidad, salva portentosas luces sin apoyos interiores, y deja a resguardo un espacio diáfano que se siente al aire libre gracias a perforaciones rectangulares de gran formato. Construida con chapas de acero soldadas —de apenas 12 milímetros de espesor—, esta suerte de velarium se dilata y contrae en función de las temperaturas y se abre a un cielo que intensifica la tornadiza experiencia espacial.

After completing in 2008 the workshops for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) in Atsugi, a city thirty kilometers west of Tokyo, the university center had no doubt assigning this new project to the Japanese practice headed by Junya Ishigami. On this occasion, the proposal responds to two fundamental needs: to give students a new meeting space where they can socialize and take a break, and to provide the university with a multipurpose space to host all kinds of events. The final solution is a semi-exterior void that forms a public square for the enjoyment of students of the Kanagawa Institute. Surrounded by tall educational buildings, the one-story volume seeks giving the premises a human scale. As a continuous tapestry, it gently adapts to the irregular terrain and invites visitors to sit on the floor and take over the space as they please. The undulating roof spreads not far over them, tensing the relationship between floor and ceiling. Bringing the definition of versatility to an extreme, the roof spans extraordinary distances without interior supports, thereby protecting an uninterrupted space that feels like outdoors thanks to huge rectangular perforations above. Executed with welded steel plates hardly 12 millimeters thick, this velarium of sorts dilates and contracts in accordance with the temperature and opens up to a sky that intensifies the user’s shifting spatial experience.

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