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Terms and conditions applyKengo Kuma: Breathing Architecture
Volker Fischer and Ulrich Schneider
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Format: Book
Pages: 131
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date Published: Apr 2008
Stock Code: 65427
Binding: Paperback
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Kengo Kuma's Teahouse is a masterly reinterpretation of a classical Japanese building type. Delivered in August 2007 for the Park of the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts (a Richard Meier Building), Kuma's innovative structure in flexible, semi-transparent, 'breathing' Tenara-Membrane - inflated by means of a pneumatic system to a blossom-like form - houses in the interiorthe classical elements for Japanese tea ceremony. Integrated LED technology allows the use of the teahouse at night; the interior can be heated by way of the membrane.
The monograph, including an original text by Kuma himself, gives an in-depth documentation of this lyrical temporary structure an outstanding example of ephemeral architecture, combining poetry and technology - with many unpublished sketches, technical plans andsplendid colour photographs.
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