Kenzo TangePresented by : Tanveer Alam, B.Arch. Final Year 2014-15

Tradition of JAPAN……………

Japanese Architecture had developed into pure efficiency ofuse of material

Structure is a post and beam grid allowing building to beflexible and to withstand strong and mild earth quakes.

Space inside and outside is multifunctional.

All the elements inside the building must be movable, smalland light.

Proportions are according to KEN scale.

Traditional Japanese Architecture is based on nature’s philosophy.

INTRODUCTION Kenzo Tange was a Japanese architect & urban planner.

LIFE PERIOD:4 September 1913- 22 march 2005.

He was one of the most significant architects of 20th century,combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism.

He designed major building on five continents.

Tange was also an influential protagonist of the structuralistmovement.

He was influenced by Le Corbusier ,was a master in the use ofreinforced concrete.

Kenzo Tange’s work marked a revived awareness of Japanesearchitectural traditions expressed through contemporaryinterpretation of architectural form.

Tange demonstrated that a unique regionalism could bedeveloped, and recognized, within the circumstance ofinternational style.

Believed in fusion of traditional and modern architecture after 1960’s

Took inspiration from the nature(Tree)

His philosophy includes city should be able to born, grow, decay and die.

Justification of function

Justification of design

Fundamentally rational and functional

Appealing to emotions and senses

Need of symbolism

Architects

Idea

Tradition

Act as a catalystBuilding Form

PHILOSOPHY

DESIGN THEORY He was pioneer of movement known as

“METABOLISM”.

METABOLISM arose in Japan after worldwar 2 ,and much of work produced bythe movement is concerned withhousing issues.

In his view, the traditional laws of fixedforms and function were obsolete.

His vision for cities of future inhabited

by a mass society were characterized by

a large scale, flexible and expandable

structures that evoked the process of

the organic growth.

MAJOR WORKS Hiroshima peace memorial museum ,Hiroshima 1955.

Yoyogi national gymnasium for the 1964 summer olympics, Tokyo.

St. Mary’s Cathedral (Tokyo Cathedral), Tokyo in 1964.

Nanyang technological university, Singapore 1986

UOB plaza in Singapore in 1992.

Fuji television HQ building, Odaiba, Tokyo in 1996.

Tokyo metropolitan government building in 1991.

Kenzo tange’s own house- It is

fused with a more traditional Japanese

design that uses timber and paper. The

house is based on the traditional Japanese

module.

BUILDINGS BY TANGE

Reconstruction of the city was done after it wasdestroyed during world War-II

This complex as a whole has a monumentalquality.

Entrance of the city is from many sides.

In the center of the city Hiroshima peace centeris there.

In the west of this conference center, children’slibrary is there.

In the east of this memorial museum is there.

In the north of peace center there is museumhall.

HIROSHIMA CITY PLAN

HIROSHIMA PEACE CENTER

It is a center part of the city.

This area has been directly hit by thebomb.

This building is raised on the pillars.

Its structure is a framework of exposedconcrete.

Tange’s elevated the building on pilotis a common technique of Le Corbusier

He also look at Le Corbusier ribbon glazing to the extreme and designed floor toceiling window.

Exposed of structure is in the reference to traditional Japanese architecture.

Courtyard was open except for the memorial which served as focal point.

This memorial has a seating capacity of 2500.

KURASHIKI CITY HALL

Kurashiki city hall has a free and ever changingfaçade made of a series of horizontal, verticalwindows, solids and voids.

This work is a translation in cement left roughwith impression of wooden building.

The entire mass a standing on four massivepiers.

Natural flow of space from the plaza to thepublic hall and then to the counter section onsecond floor.

The project visualize two primary structures based on a continuous triangular section. Within the triangular structure there are open space for community centers

The most famous work by Kenzo Tange.

Built for the Olympics in 1964.

It is comprised of two buildings.

Inspired by the skyline of the Colosseum inRome.

The gymnasium has a capacity ofapproximately 16,000 & smaller building canaccommodate up 5,300 people.

Its aerodynamic monumental and suggestivedesign became an icon of the Japanese capitaland a benchmark in the metabolistmovement distancing himself from theinternational style.

YOYOGI NATIONAL GYMNASIUM, TOKYO

BUILDINGS BY TANGE

Tange continued to practice until three years before his death in 2005. He disliked postmodernism in the 1980s and considered this style of architecture to be only "transitional architectural expressions"