CONTENTS :
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 : Temporary and permanent in relation to materiality
• What is considering temporary and what permanent in Japanese buildings?
• How this flexibility of habitation is created?
CHAPTER 2 : Relationships between the interior and exterior
• How this transition of two spaces is achieved by the human senses?
(Visual marking of spaces – inside/outside)
• How the building does merges with the surrounding environment? What textures are created from this?
(Example: Todaiji Temple – exterior penetrating into the interior, Horiuchi House – Life pass through the outside and vice versa)
CHAPTER 3 : Embracing aesthetics of the space
• How materiality can transform positively or negatively a space?
• How building materials blend with nature and embrace the aesthetics of the space?
(Example: Villa Mairea – Alvar Ando Finland
ABSTRACT:
In this essay I will refer on the use of materiality, textures and aesthetics in Japanese Architecture. Aesthetics is what concerns our appreciation of things as they affect our senses and especially as they affect them in a pleasant way. As humans we don’t …show more content…
According to the human needs, Japanese tend to create flexible buildings in order to enhance different habitation. For example, the traditional houses were built in such a way that when places were not in use they would remove it but also can be transform for different habitations, but also this relationship with nature that when the doors were removed or opened you had this immediately connection with the outside world, is like being in the outside but you are inside. So we have this temporary relation to the outside while being inside.
CHAPTER 2 : Relationships between the interior and exterior
How this transition of two spaces is achieved by the human senses?
(Visual marking of spaces –
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 : Temporary and permanent in relation to materiality
• What is considering temporary and what permanent in Japanese buildings?
• How this flexibility of habitation is created?
CHAPTER 2 : Relationships between the interior and exterior
• How this transition of two spaces is achieved by the human senses?
(Visual marking of spaces – inside/outside)
• How the building does merges with the surrounding environment? What textures are created from this?
(Example: Todaiji Temple – exterior penetrating into the interior, Horiuchi House – Life pass through the outside and vice versa)
CHAPTER 3 : Embracing aesthetics of the space
• How materiality can transform positively or negatively a space?
• How building materials blend with nature and embrace the aesthetics of the space?
(Example: Villa Mairea – Alvar Ando Finland
ABSTRACT:
In this essay I will refer on the use of materiality, textures and aesthetics in Japanese Architecture. Aesthetics is what concerns our appreciation of things as they affect our senses and especially as they affect them in a pleasant way. As humans we don’t …show more content…
According to the human needs, Japanese tend to create flexible buildings in order to enhance different habitation. For example, the traditional houses were built in such a way that when places were not in use they would remove it but also can be transform for different habitations, but also this relationship with nature that when the doors were removed or opened you had this immediately connection with the outside world, is like being in the outside but you are inside. So we have this temporary relation to the outside while being inside.
CHAPTER 2 : Relationships between the interior and exterior
How this transition of two spaces is achieved by the human senses?
(Visual marking of spaces –