SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE

I distasil restrained architecture, and believe that architecture can cause true turmoil in a man, as well as excitement or serfe. An architecture that will evoke mixed emotions in a person, and we will not be able to walk past it without asking questions. As Roberto Venturi said in "Incomprehensive Architecture: A Subtle Manifesto" (1966):

"I like elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure,' compromising rather than 'clean,' distorted rather than 'straightforward,' ambiguous rather than 'articulated,' perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as 'interesting,' conventional rather than 'designed,' accommodating rather than excluding, redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal rather than direct and clear."

In the Mediatech building the rhythm of nature is very noticeable. While the materials from which the structure is built herald that the technology is also largely here, the purity of nature still lies in the structure, which is the dynamics, the continuity of the great forests, and Toyo Ito brings this rhythm into the city, into our daily lives– to a place where we are going to watch art galleries, read books in the library, that is, we will not be able to escape this burning architecture, and we will even want it within us. As written by Kop Himmelbalo in "Architecture should burn" (1980):

"If cold, then cold as a block of ice.
If hot, then hot as a blazing wing.
Architecture must blaze".