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Lighting Beams Residence by Yoshitaka Uchino |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
YU: The main inspiration of the design is creating natural beauty of wooden frames which are embraced in Japanese architectures and cultures for a long time.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
YU: The thing we would like to achieve most is giving birth beauty and order of wooden frames. The frames of wood structures found in traditional Japanese architecture including Katsura Imperial Vila express great yet subtle beauty.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
YU: We would like to design and regenerate old architectures based on this concept. This concept of adding beams evenly would be able to apply to most wooden houses and they would be structurally strengthened.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
YU: About a month. We considered the concept of making use of the existing frame from scratch. The idea of adding the beams evenly flashed into our mind while carefully checking the structure and making the detailed drawings of it.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
YU: This design was commissioned. Although we did several regeneration projects, we would like to design this house highly taking care of traditional construction method and making the best use of the old frames and materials.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
YU: Our designs are only for ourselves, and we would not sell or lease them. Rather, we would like to deepen this concept while further studying the history of construction method of wooden houses and to design other old architecture to change them to brand-new one with high values.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
YU: Driven by the mission to regenerate architectures beautifully, we designed this house. I think concepts concerning sustainability are highly demanded for architects. Making the best use of the existing houses is the one of the most valuable solutions for sustainability in the world.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
YU: Although the types of architectures are different, we learned a great deal about the attitude towards regenerating architectures from the works of Carlo Scarpa. We learned a lot from his works including Castelvecchio. The materials of his works are mainly by stones and concretes, not woods, nevertheless his ideas of creating spaces of tender light making use of the given concept really are very suggestive.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
YU: The main target for this design are individuals who have old houses to take care for. Property companies who would like to regenerate existing buildings are also our potential customers.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
YU: The design concepts which further deal with wooden frames for creating beauty, not superficial design, set apart from other similar concepts. Our design could be realized based upon thorough investigations on existing buildings and delicate design mind for materials and light.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
YU: The name has come up to me while watching the final model. This means the functions of the frame especially the beams.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
YU: I always design mainly by sketching by my hand. Based on our concepts and my sketch, we discuss the possibilities of projects over models. After the basic design have decided we make drawings by CAD and create presentations using 3D CGs.
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
YU: Although I design to create beautiful spaces, I heavily value the basic concept and scientific approach. This attitude towards design is, I think, most unique aspect. I don’t advance designs without deciding the primary concept.
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
YU: I collaborated with staffs of YDS Architects for this design. Several discussions over the basic concept and models with them created the total design.
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
YU: We don’t need state-of-the-art technologies for this design. The most important things concerning technology are structural thinking and environmental thinking. The former created simple systematic frame, the latter view cut off parts of the wall and placed new narrow windows which effectively bring the natural light into the space.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
YU: The data about solar location and position of the sun helped us to deal with the natural light and decide where to place new window.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
YU: The most challenging thing of this project is to change parts of the design when the positions the wooden frame and other materials are different from the ones which we intended. We would be able to change the design well on site thanks to the collaborations of contractor.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
YU: I would like to know how our design evaluated in the world. Also by creating presentations and texts for applying the A’ Award, our thought of this design deepens.
FS: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
YU: Traveling and visiting architectures always inspire me. While the period of design, I have been to the USA and Mexico. The experiences of traveling abroad and visiting architectures by Louis Kahn, Louis Barragan, Tadao Ando deepen the design.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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