FACADE T-Shirt Prototype
建築Tシャツ・プロトタイプ
2016
東京 | Tokyo, Japan
Joint Project with SOMA DESIGN and takram design engineering
Special Thanks to Toyo Ito
While architects’ core motivations and intentions may lie elsewhere, facades are inescapably the most visible part of architecture. A facade may reveal, project, camouflage, and even intensify various internal spatialities. The project explores the effects of facades when resized to clad the smallest architectural module; that is, of a human scale. Façade is sublimated insofar as architecture is reappropriated by the body, and body the architecture, to exact obscurations of structure and mass-void. This is also an effort to literally humanize architecture and to catalyze broader speculations, discussions, and imagination about its critical potential.
Based on “Pipe-dream” dialogues between Kaz Yoneda and Greg Serweta during the summer of 2009.
photography by Keita・Shinya