Artpower Creative Space No.13

Artpower Creative Space N.13

ISSN: 2409-4625 Size: 215 x 285 mm Pages: 168

The 13th issue of ACS themed “Love of A Simple Life” showcases the excellent examples in architecture, interior and products that are firmly grounded in rationality and reflection in the pursuit of simplicity. Mr. Shigeru Ban is invited to share with us why it is essential for him to “Keep It Small”.

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ACS: What was the client's expectation of this residential space?

Gwenael Nicolas: This is my own residence.

ACS: What was your first impression or initial idea when you set out to design this project?

Gwenael Nicolas: I remember the moment when I first opened the door I saw the outside directly 20 meters away. I thought this place was very special and if I broke the wall it would be amazing. Every time I enter a room or a building I can feel how to make it different with a stronger emotional touch, which wall should go, where to open a floor, etc...

Space is scarse in Japan. It is the real luxury so you do not want to put anything that would interfere...

ACS: You said that the intention of your design was to generate a "deai" moment, or a moment of encounter. What sort of interaction(s) were you suggesting through the design of this project?

The entire structure was planned according to green thought, meaning the correct natural shading for all of the building’s spaces, and the pergolas and

Gwenael Nicolas: It is not a space with a sense of protection or a core

different shadings were planned according to the required angles.

that gathers all thing I own or like. It is more like a black hole, an empty space where I can enjoy time with kids.

More than notion of space, it is a notion of time. How to create a space where you feel the time there is stretched and precious. MORE THAN THE NOTION OF SPACE IT IS

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Architect | Dan and Hila Israelevitz Architects

Plot area | 12,000 m2

Gardened area | 5,000 m2

Built area | 750 m2

House in Shfela Area

The building’s concept is an integration with the natural landscape in the area and in the plot, while creating a dramatic entrance façade that is still restrained and mysterious toward the street. Instead of highlighting the large and regular windows, and the doors, the idea was to hint at the building by creating two concrete beams with a line of trees between them. Between these stands a columns arcade which leads to the entrance hall, with an ornamental pool on both sides of the path. The entrance to the building, through a patio as a fruit tree orchard, constitutes a pause before entering the house and creates a framework for the building, built of layers of walls and partitions.

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An entire wing is designed for entertaining, with an outdoor kitchen, outdoor living room and a shading area accordingly. The interior planning is characterized by a correlation between sight lines and walking paths, which achieved a sense of additional openness and light. The kitchen includes another exit to a wide morning garden with two old olive trees. This garden is delineated by a massive concrete beam which delineates the space.

The back façade, and in fact the planning of the back part of the plot,

LEGEND 1.entrance

8. pool house

15. patio

22. safty room / gym

constitutes the opposite of the hinting at the entrance façade. The building

2. ornamental pool

9. swimimg pool

16. pantry

23. guest room

entirely opens to the L-shaped plot and the swimming pool constitutes an

3. living roonm

10. porch

17. loudry

24. storage

anchor which connects the surrounding building’s wings.

4. kitchen

11. master bedroom

18. service patio

25. parking

5. dining room

12. bedroom

19. jacuzzi

Here the house is characterized by maximal openness, of wide and large

6. outdoor dining room

13. family room

20. media room

openings which surround the swimming pool and the plot. In order to

7. outdoor kitchen

14. service room

21. kitchenette

provide natural and comfortable shading, built pergolas and coupling beams were designed as an integral part of the building. These flow with the structure and define the landscape as segments of photographs.

DESIGN KEYWORDS

Concrete Beams Stretching sight Lines

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Between Cities, Beyond Cultures ·1·

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ACS: Please brief us on a current project you are working on and what

ACS: Are you concerned with cultural identity in your architectural

is new or challenging about it.

expressions?

Ban: As one of the current projects, I’d like to talk about the Cité

Ban: I was born in Japan and learned architecture in U.S.A., so I have

musicale de l’île Seguin. What is new in this project is the PFI (Private

never viewed a building from the vantage point of it being “Western”

Financial Initiative), a system invented in England. A structure is built

or “Japanese”. Besides, I do not really think this kind of distinction

and managed by private funds in the initial phase and once it becomes

exists in modern architecture. I am definitely concerned with culture

financially viable, it is bought by a government agency. In France

in my design as I respect different cultures, but I have never thought

this system was introduced for the first time for the Cité musicale

about cultural identity in myself.

competition, so it took a year and a half to select the private funds provider and general contractor Bouygues telecom, who signed the contract with Conseil général des Hautes-de-Seine. Generally speaking in France building contractors always try to minimize construction costs, whereas in Japan, the quality of a structure is prioritized so it is easier for an architect. The nature of PFI means that in France we have to spend a lot of energy battling with the general contractor, in order to protect the original design. So my challenge in this project is trying to create the best building possible within these restrictions.

Learning from the Locals, Building for the People

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ACS: In terms of the built environment and the design culture, what

ACS: What are some of the most impressive local and vernacular

are the major differences between Paris and Tokyo?

technologies you have encountered so far?

Ban: The major difference between Paris and Tokyo in building is,

Ban: It was in Sri Lanka, but you wouldn’t call it "technology"! I

as mentioned above, the way general contractors value quality in

discovered Geoffrey Bawa’s architecture when I visited Sri Lanka

construction. In Japan, general contractors are willing to support

for the first time to build the Kirinda post-tsunami house and was

architects and are very much oriented towards creating a high quality

profoundly impressed by his use of local materials and the way they

building, which makes it possible to establish a real collaboration

integrate with the local climate. He was the inspiration for the Villa

between the two. In France, there is no collaboration. The fact that

Vista project.

general contractors always place costs as their top priority makes it Shigeru Ban, 2014 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, is a Japanese architect famous for his creative

awkward for architects to work with them.

use of materials commonly found in daily life, such as paper, bamboo, composites of recycled paper fiber and plastics. Born in 1957, Ban had decided at an early age to become a carpenter until the model of a house he designed for an assignment during his 9th-grade summer holiday was exhibited in a school competition and won first prize. This prompted his choice of architecture as a career. A student of John Hejduk, the inspiring archetype of a “paper architect”, Ban was also influenced by the work of Alvar Aalto, which emphasized regional contexts and materials. Returning to Tokyo to start his own practice in 1985, Ban was experimental from the very beginning. The paper-tube structure which he developed for an Alvar Aalto exhibition, was first used to build paper emergency shelters after the 1994 Rwandan Civil War and then the paper log home after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. It was later widely implemented in his other disaster relief projects all over the world. For over 30 years now Ban has continued to innovate with building materials and structures and his role as a social architect has “made a significant and consistent contribution to humanity.” (Pritzker Jury Citation)

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Architect | Shigeru Ban Architects Europe Location | Weligama, Sri Lanka

Local Architect | PWA Architects

Site Area | 32,648 m2

Contractor | Star Construction & Engineers

Building Area | 550 m2

Photography | Hiroyuki Hirai

Villa Vista

After designing and building post-tsunami reconstruction houses in Sri Lanka, Shigeru Ban was commissioned to design a residence for an owner of a local tire company.

Located on a hilltop site facing the ocean, the floor, walls and ceiling of this building frame three different views. The first is the view of the ocean seen from the jungle in the valley, framed perpendicularly by the external corridor from the existing house to this house and the roof. The next is the horizontal scenery of the ocean from the hilltop framed by the large roof supported by poles of 22 m span and the floor. The last is the view of the cliff which glows red during sunset; this is viewed through a square frame composed of 4 m solid wood in the main bedroom.

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Dr. Leung established PAL Design Consultants Ltd in 1994. Apart from the Hong Kong headquarters, he has set branch offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing. He was excellent in controlling large-scale international hospitality and clubhouse. In 2015, PAL Design and Joey Ho Design merged to become one of the biggest interior consultant firms in Greater China. Joey Ho serves as the Design Partner. Consistent with PAL’s mission and vision, they celebrated the extraordinary milestone for PAL’s 21st Anniversary.

Their portfolio now includes the best of both firms

Founder and Principal Designer of PAL Design Consultants Ltd Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Lincoln University Hong Kong Top Ten Designer, HKIDA (Pro.) Honorary Advisor

Dr. Patrick Leung, graduated the design with distinction at the Polytechnic University in 1978. His interior designs convey east and west culture, jump over between modern and classic. He creates spaces artistically with an emphasis on design and art blending into each other, which enhances tasteful, creativity, comfort and timeless interiors, in order to

PAL's HK office

promote a better living standard and improve the living environment.

Dr. Patrick Leung

To receive the future with joint strengths Design Partner of PAL Design Consultants Ltd. Master of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong Bachelor of Architectural Study, National University of Singapore Vice Chairman of HKIDA, Course Consultant of HKIVE

·1· “Design” is one big word. And “China” is another big word. Yet there is

Patrick: As for the merging, both Joey and I are satisfied with the

no doubt the competition in China’s design industry is fierce. Local design

current results. Look forward to seeing the completion of our new

is coming up, overseas designers come to share the market, and clients are

programs later this year.

demanding. As such, it was a blockbuster that Joey Ho and his team were

Joey Ho draws his creative inspiration from the far-reaching corners of Asia. Born in

invited to Patrick Leung’s PAL Design last May. The merging was a big

The programs are not the usual ones we were looking at. We are

event as no other people had done that before. Just as Patrick said, “We

dealing with corporate. Design series of identity together with the

created history.”

retail commercial shops, having this combining force... We push to

Taiwan and raised in Singapore and graduated from The University of Hong Kong and

Joey Ho

another level in which we could integrate our own aspects of design.

National University of Singapore. Each of these culturally diverse yet artistically vibrant

Nearly one year after the merging, ACS visited PAL Design’s headquarter

First class lounge, innovation with luxury, jam both our ideas. Push

qualities have played their part in fashioning Joey's unique and avant-garde perspective

on Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong. The space of 557 m2, inspired

our boundaries, co-ordinate balance of different aspects of the project.

of the world.

by the hyper density of the city, is characterized by interlocking and

Find the kind of force we are kind of putting in the project.

interrelated MDF blocks, which formed furniture system like screens, bookshelves and workstations to create a communal space, encouraging

For individual strength: I prefer luxury projects — big houses, villas;

interaction and collaboration.

he is creative on small projects — retails hops. Together get to another level of experience of luxury + creativity.

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Sunac Shi-Guan No. 1, Beijing

The two model houses of 268 m2 are located in Chaoyang CBD, Beijing, China. Neo-Chinese style is thoroughly illustrated by the designer’s choice of marble, wood furnishing, leather furnishing, cloth and other building materials.

In the designer’s view, the essence of simplicity is based on the space itself, which is filled with the atmosphere of mistiness and whiteness. Entering the porch, you feel like that you are lingering in a pure white museum. Hard linear leads you to the inner space with that powerful visual impact between the real and the imaginary.

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A Glimpse of Art Basel HK

Djordje Ozbolt "Les visiteurs I" (2014) Djordje Ozbolt Courtesy of TARO NASU, Photo by Keizo KIOKU

Tracey Emin "Lean Back" (2015) Photo credit: Xavier Hufkens gallery; Courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

The 2015 Hong Kong show of Art Basel was a breakthrough which placed Hong Kong in the center of Asia’s international

LUI Chun Kwong Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Exit

art scene. Alongside a strong presence of returning galleries from across the globe, the 2016 edition featured 28 galleries that participated in the Hong Kong show of Art Basel for the first time, altogether presenting works of the highest quality that range from the Modern period of the early 20th century to the most contemporary artists of today. Art Basel in Hong Kong was open to the public from, March 24 to March 26 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).

David Renggli "Floorplan Desire Painting" (2015) Courtesy of the artist and Wentrup Gallery

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In this exhibition, she explores the life of everyday objects that are left behind or lost by their owners. Using abstract and familiar motifs she juxtaposes the “lost� objects against each other to create a sense of dialogue between them, animating their metamorphosis from ordinary objects into fantastical forms that beguile the viewer with possibilities. The exhibition also features a stop motion film installation by the artist, of a folding-table exploring its moving parts, its fictional history and its future possibilities.

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