";s:4:"text";s:4972:" It clearly demarcates the edge of the Place Cosandey, an open plaza abutting the SANAA and Perrault buildings, and establishes a north–south axis linking the student dorms and the Esplanade Piazza, the school’s social hub north of the new building. New Canaan is known as a town where many houses from the 1950s by such architects as Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer still remain, and the one we worked on was the residence for Joe Black Leigh (built in 1956), also a friend of Philip Johnson. Similar Items. Kengo Kuma . Kuma, Kengo, -- 1954-College buildings -- Switzerland -- Lausanne. Nikken. The building slopes up from the south end to its north end, where the slate roof dramatically folds over.ArtLab brings Dominique Perrault’s New Mechanics Hall and SANAA’s Rolex Learning Center into a formal relationship.The eaves’ soffits and structural frames carry over from outside to the Art & Science Pavilion’s reception area, revealing the building’s construction tectonics.Punctuated by open porches, the east elevation’s evenly spaced columns create a vertical pattern reminiscent of Kuma’s signature wood louvers.Stairs ascend to the Esplanade Piazza from DataSquare, which is partially underground.Within the Art & Science Pavilion, LED spotlights drop from the ceiling.Outside, LED fixtures installed at various angles keep the lights’ rays vertical to the ground, regardless of the soffit’s changing surface.Located on the campus of Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Kengo Kuma’s ArtLab is an elegant, low sliver of a building, overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps beyond. Text by Maria Novozhilova. The spruce, pre-aged to prevent uneven coloration, is also used for the eaves’ soffits, which continue inside for the ceilings. Our aim was to inherit the…Concept: The starting point was to open the east exit of Hoshakuji Station. This time, Kuma was after something different: dramatic and daring, his ArtLab makes its mark with one bold sweep.The exposed structure becomes its own ornament, and its rational construction methodology becomes an educational tool, as befits a school known for nurturing the next engineers.
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