Today, social structures, habits and behavioural models are short-lived. This is a recognition of... more Today, social structures, habits and behavioural models are short-lived. This is a recognition of the fast mutability and lack of consolidation that, together with the virtual presence, are contemporary conditions. In this context, firstly it is pertinent to recognize the obsolescence of the Vitruvian manifest that rules western architecture and secondly it is necessary to claim for its redefinition. This article sheds light on an alternative language for architecture to confront a fast ever-evolving reality and respond to the indeterminacy of the future. The new approach to architecture is stated as a production of an ambivalent character of the spatial experience that will promote a durable and resilient architectonic organizational structure. Thus, a designed space does not resolve a programmed use but affects the user´s experience by suggesting various interpretations and relationships to space, providing this way unexpected situations and events to happen. Japan architecture is a prolific research field to identify principles ruled by transience and contingency due to the impermanency and the renewal of time that characterizes its culture. Junya Ishigami´s proposal is one of the most advanced Japanese contemporary examples in architecture as spatial ambivalence experience dealing with environmental issues to build multi-scale relationships between spaces. His work has been selected as a case study to visualize a permanent structure that copes with use obsolescence and uncertainty of the future.
Today, social structures, habits and behavioural models are short-lived. This is a recognition of... more Today, social structures, habits and behavioural models are short-lived. This is a recognition of the fast mutability and lack of consolidation that, together with the virtual presence, are contemporary conditions. In this context, firstly it is pertinent to recognize the obsolescence of the Vitruvian manifest that rules western architecture and secondly it is necessary to claim for its redefinition. This article sheds light on an alternative language for architecture to confront a fast ever-evolving reality and respond to the indeterminacy of the future. The new approach to architecture is stated as a production of an ambivalent character of the spatial experience that will promote a durable and resilient architectonic organizational structure. Thus, a designed space does not resolve a programmed use but affects the user´s experience by suggesting various interpretations and relationships to space, providing this way unexpected situations and events to happen. Japan architecture is a prolific research field to identify principles ruled by transience and contingency due to the impermanency and the renewal of time that characterizes its culture. Junya Ishigami´s proposal is one of the most advanced Japanese contemporary examples in architecture as spatial ambivalence experience dealing with environmental issues to build multi-scale relationships between spaces. His work has been selected as a case study to visualize a permanent structure that copes with use obsolescence and uncertainty of the future.
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Japan architecture is a prolific research field to identify principles ruled by transience and contingency due to the impermanency and the renewal of time that characterizes its culture. Junya Ishigami´s proposal is one of the most advanced Japanese contemporary examples in architecture as spatial ambivalence experience dealing with environmental issues to build multi-scale relationships between spaces. His work has been selected as a case study to visualize a permanent structure that copes with use obsolescence and uncertainty of the future.
Japan architecture is a prolific research field to identify principles ruled by transience and contingency due to the impermanency and the renewal of time that characterizes its culture. Junya Ishigami´s proposal is one of the most advanced Japanese contemporary examples in architecture as spatial ambivalence experience dealing with environmental issues to build multi-scale relationships between spaces. His work has been selected as a case study to visualize a permanent structure that copes with use obsolescence and uncertainty of the future.