TOYO ITO

SUBMITTED BY:VARUN KUMAR SINGHANIAB. ARCH IV061026

Honorary Fellowship of AIAHonorary Fellowship of RIBA Commissioner of Kumamoto Artpolis

BIOGRAPHY1941 Born in Seoul Metropolitan City

1965 Graduated from The University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture

  Worked at Kiyonori Kikutake Architects and Associates

1971 Started his own studio, Urban Robot (URBOT) in Tokyo

1979 Changed its name to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

AWARDS AND PRIZES 1986 Architecture Institute of Japan awards for “Silver Hut”

1992 33rd Mainich Art Award for Yatsushiro Municipal Museum

1999 Japan Art Academy Prize for “Dome in Odate”

2003 Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for “Sendai Mediatheque”

2004 XX ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for “Ripples” (furniture design)

2006 Royal Gold Medal from The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

2008 6th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts

LIST OF WORKS

1991 - Yatsushiro Municipal Museum

1994 - Old People's Home in Yatsushiro

2001 - Sendai Mediatheque (Actar, Barcelona)

2002 - Commissioned to design a temporary pavilion adjacent to

the Serpentine Gallery, in Hyde Park, London

2002 - Bruges pavilion

2004 -Matsumoto Performing Art Center, Matsumoto

2004 -TOD's Omotesando Building, Tokyo

2006 -Taichung Opera International Competition in Taiwan

2006 -VivoCity Singapore at HarbourFront

2008 -World Games Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2008 -Villa for Chilean architectural project Ochoalcubo.

2009 -Suites Avenue Building, Barcelona, Spain

2009 -Water Fountain in Pescara

2009 -Torre Fira BCN Building, Barcelona, Spain

VISION

Toyo Ito is inspired from philosophers such as Munesuke Mita and Gilles Deleuze.

Ito has defined architecture as "clothing" for urban dwellers i.e. equilibrium between the private life and the metropolitan, "public" life of an individual.

His work are very difficult to categorize.

He believes in lightness and transparency.

And follows organic design.

Explores the potentials of new forms and shapes.

TOD’s Omotesando Tokyo, Japan

LOCATION : Omotesando, the tree-lined boulevard of Tokyo.

CLIENT : Tod’s, the Italian leather-goods company.

DESIGN CHALLENGE :Only 33 feet of street front space but has to create an identiy.

•Building is the Japanese Headquarters for the TOD’S – the Italian leather goods company.

•Only the bottom two levels are open to the public.

•The upper levels are for offices and meeting rooms.

“Trees are organisms that stand by themselves, so their shape has an inherent, structural rationality” –Toyo ItoDesign – Silhouettes of nine trees were overlapped to create the six walls of the L-shaped building

•The trees were designed of concrete, 12 inches thick and bear all the structures load.•The interior is seven stories of column free space.•As the building grows higher, the branches begin to split and thin out until they reach the top.

“We did not use any special algorithm to determine their size, but we tried to keep the elements from getting too small.” – TOYO ITO

Pictures showing the shuttering work.

•The space in between all the branches turns into 270 unique openings.

•The openings grow smaller closer to the roof.

•Openings are filled with both glass and aluminum panels

“Instead of openings cut into a solid concrete volume, transparency and opacity are on an equal footing.” - Architectural Record

•The entrance is the largest opening, - A triple height.

•Load is carried by excellent path that the concrete tree creates.

•Also the floor slabs are 20inches deep and carry all theinterior loads to the exteriorwalls.

•Whole of the interior is a column free space.

•An advantage this is that, displays can be rearranged and put virtually anyway.

Stairs are placed in the extreme ends of the retail space.

On the roof is a glass encased meeting room as well as a mixture of grass patches and travertine paving.

SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE

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