Conceptual Design and Diagrams Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito

Teacher: Christiane M Herr Student: Jerry Hung

A brief story of Toyo Ito

Selected Projects

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Taiwan 2007-

U House, Japan 1975-1976

TODs Omotesando, Japan 2002-2004

Mahler 4 Block 5, The Netherlands 2000-2008

Aluminium Cottage Project, Japan 2002-2004

Gavia Park, Spain 2003

U House, Japan 1975-1976

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Fluidity

Itos sketch

Working model

Horizontal direction fluidity

Mahler 4 Block 5, The Netherlands 2000-2008

Itos sketch Site photographs, 2005

Landscape concept

Design Diagrams

Extending some floor heights

Standard floor height = 3.6 M

Proposed section

Adding voids

Standard plan

Supply sunlight/ fresh air to the corridor

Standard plan

Create additional office space

Overall site plan showing the nine blocks as foreseen by the masterplan

Vertical direction fluidity

Voids. Concept Diagrams

1. Art space 2. Art space 3. Green garden 4. Gallery cafe 5. Open space/ Restaurant 6. Terrace 7. Gallery caf 8. Art space 9. Terrace 10. Open caf 11. Water garden

West Elevation

East Elevation

Aluminium Cottage Project, Japan 2002-2004

Folding
Itos concept

Formal variants

SKF

RAP

ORE

KAT

Analysis of three different developments: floor plan, section, and facade

TODS Omotesando Building, Japan 2002-2004

Aerial site view

The site is L-shaped and has a narrow frontage, in order to give the building a unified volume we enclosed the site with a wall that gives the impression of a row of zelkova trees.

Concept diagrams

Cross section

SHOP. East inside elevation

SHOP. West inside elevation

Gavia Park, Spain (Competition, First Prize) 2003-

Natural-biology
Existing landform

Water-tree

Water-tree sketch

New landscape

Le Corbusier, Modernism

Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito-ism, Naturism

Trees of housing

Trees of water

The forms of streams resemble the forms of trees

Ridge water-tree

Rich green land and poor green land

Wet land and dry land

Future park network

Valley water-tree

Water flow chart

A complicated landform is created by combining a ridge water-tree and a valley water-tree

Water purification system

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Taiwan 2007-

Concept sketches

sounds curve

ear

throat

Basic system

Geometry Coral

Combines system Shellfish

Space type A

Space type B

Le Corbusier, Urbanism

Toyo Ito, Organ-Urbanism

Plan Voisin, Metabolize organism

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Fluidity organism

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