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A sliding window is composed of two or more sashes or doors sliding horizontally on grooves or rails. Sliding windows may combine several types of fittings such as glass doors, screen doors, or louvres.
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Swiss Window Journeys: A Conversation between Andrea Deplazes, Laurent Stalder, and Momoyo Kaijima
On 12 April 2024, to celebrate the publication of Swiss Window Journeys: Architectural Field Notes, the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology organized a walking tour of notable windows across the city…
17 Dec 2024
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01│Antoni Gaudí: A “Sensible Architect”
Introduction The window is an extremely popular motif among architects. It would be natural to think that the possibilities for window design flourished after the mass production of plate glass began …
11 Dec 2024
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The Windows of the Diffendorfer Memorial Hall and University Chapel at the International Christian University (ICU): Preserving, Passing On, And…
…ommonly done today. The windows consist of double-sliding windows and transom hopper windows, with steel reinforcement integrated within the transoms and mullions to make their faces appear thinner. T…
28 Aug 2024
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A Conversation with Silke Langenberg
Silke Langenberg, Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, has been conducting surveys of folk houses throughout Switzerland and explo…
25 Jul 2024
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The Windows of the Cachat Buvette in Evian｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #4
After resuming his creative activities with his new firm, Jean Prouvé Constructions, Prouvé presented an alternative version of the béquille in a project he had been working on concurrently with the V…
18 Jul 2024
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“Window Behaviorology” is exhibited at VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Windows and daylight influence our behavior. This is unpacked in VILLUM Window Collection’s new exhibition curated by Japanese architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), who has devoted many yea…
05 Apr 2024
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A window with a memory
…building’s construction in 1966. Since all of the sliding windows at Kakinokisou are the same size, it’s possible to replace and rearrange them. For this reason, it was possible to create a piece whic…
22 Apr 2024
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Windows of the Villejuif Temporary School｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #3
After being driven out of the Maxéville Factory in Nancy, Prouvé was prepared to go into retirement at his self-built home. Yet, he would begin developing new window designs again after reuniting with…
28 Mar 2024
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The Windows of Hiroshi Hara’s Awazu House: Spaces of Light Illuminating the Darkness
The Awazu House, designed by Hiroshi Hara, now searches for a path toward continuity. A number of masterpieces have been created here at this home and atelier of world-famous graphic designer Kiyoshi …
26 Apr 2024
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Issue 11: Joined Somewhere, Connected Throughout—Chen Chi-Kwan, Tunghai University Methodist Hall
The campus of Taiwan’s first private university, Tunghai University, stretches across the suburbs of Taichung, a city in the center-west of Taiwan. It is Taiwan’s first Christian school fo…
04 Mar 2024
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Terunobu Fujimori│007: The Shōji of the Rinshunkaku
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
01 Feb 2024
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) is perhaps Holland’s best-known architect. His Schröder House in Utrecht from 1924 has achieved iconic status. In fact, Rietveld built around 100 houses, and of these very …
27 Mar 2023
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The Windows of the Komai House by W. M. Vories & Co.
The soon-to-be 100-year-old Komai House, now called the Taku & Shizue Komai Museum, stands along a canal path in Kitashirakawa, a suburban neighborhood in Kyoto’s Sakyo Ward with open views of Mou…
15 Jan 2024
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A Conversation with François Charbonnet (Made in)
Made in is a highly acclaimed architecture firm that was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. François Charbonnet, one of its co-principals, formerly taught as a visiting professor at ETH Zurich a…
25 Jan 2024
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Katsura Catholic Church
,Completed in 1965, the Katsura Catholic Church in Kyoto is known as the only George Nakashima-designed building in Japan. The structure of the main building is composed simply of a thin, rhomboid hyp…
12 Jan 2024
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Terunobu Fujimori│006: The Shitomi of the Kondo Hall at Ninnaji Temple
In this series, architectural historian Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intriguing windows fo…
12 Sep 2023
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The Prince Karuizawa: The Materiality of Kiyoshi Seike’s Windows
The New Karuizawa Prince Hotel (now The Prince Karuizawa) built in 1982 was designed by Kiyoshi Seike. Seike is known as the architect of a number of Prince hotels locations, with Karuizawa being the …
12 Oct 2023
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A Conversation with Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
On the occasion of the “Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan” currently being held in Copenhagen, we conducted a series of interviews with four Danish architects in cooperation …
12 Jul 2023
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The Experimental Design of the KATONO House in Sapporo
Known as an experimental work of modern architecture tailored for Hokkaido’s climate, the KATONO House (Personal Residence) in Sapporo designed by renowned Hokkaido architect Tetsu Katono (1924–2009) …
12 Apr 2023
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Issue 7: The Slate Village Down the Mountains: Pingtung
…t of a set, such as a casement window or a double sliding window. This feeling of something being off may also be due to the way it is cut out from the wall using thin slate, unlike thick masonry wall…
09 Mar 2023
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Conversation with EMI Architekten
…e is that it’s not abstract, in the same way as a sliding window, for example. Rather than having a single large window, you can have several vertical windows in a row, each one of which can be opened…
15 Dec 2022
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
Please refer to the event archive from below link: ,,After being exhibited at the three Japan Houses in Los Angeles, São Paulo, and London, we are excited to announce that the exhibition Windowology: …
29 Aug 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori | 003: The Vertical Sliding Windows of the Public Speaking Hall (Mita Enzetsukan)
…n article number three, he discusses the vertical sliding windows (agesagemado) of the Public Speaking Hall on the Keio University Mita Campus. The hall was created by Yukichi Fukuzawa as a space for …
24 Aug 2022
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Junzo Yoshimura, Sonoda House: Sliding Glass Door Leading to the Garden and Waist-high Window Making a Space Somewhat Core to the Design
A room with a vague focal space During an exhibition of the work of YOSHIMURA Junzo (1908–1997) in 2005 (held at The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts), YOSHIMURA was featured in NHK…
30 Mar 2022
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The Windows of the Migishi Atelier: Inheritance and Change
In October of last year (2021), the Migishi Atelier (Kamisaginomiya, Nakano, Tokyo) was opened to the public after the architecture collective GROUP completed a partial renovation of its interior wall…
01 Apr 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜ 002: The Diverse Openings of the Yosuitei’s Thirteen-Window Tearoom
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
24 Mar 2022
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The Yosuitei06/07 Shitajimado and Renjimado, 08 Nijiriguchi, 09/10 Shitajimado and Renjimado
,06/07 Shitajimado and Renjimado Another instance where Enshu used his favorite combination of an upper shitajimado (exposed lath window) and lower renjimado (slatted window). This shitajimado has a …
04 Dec 2021
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The Yosuitei03 Furosakimado
,03 Furosakimado A furosakimado (lit. “window beyond the brazier”) is a type of window made in the wall behind the brazier used in tea ceremonies, and it is named based on its location. It provides ta…
02 Dec 2021
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The Yosuitei01/02 Shikishimado
,01/02 Shikishimado A shikishimado (lit. “calligraphy board window”) is a type of window composed of a stacked pair of openings that are shifted off-axis, and it is named based on its appearance. It g…
01 Dec 2021
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The Yosuitei04/05 Shitajimado and Renjimado
,04/05 Shitajimado and Renjimado Enshu liked to stack shitajimado (exposed lath window) on top of renjimado (slatted window), and he has done so in three places at the Yosuitei. This shitajimado has a…
03 Dec 2021
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Shikidō/Frosted Glass Window for Study
…student. The two sides of the room featured small sliding windows with frosted glass. A low desk with inkstones and brushes was placed in front of these windows, where he used the natural light for hi…
04 Mar 2022
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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
…ows have been modified such that nine consecutive sliding windows can be opened and closed simultaneously by connecting them with bars. ,,,,Hayashi Grape Labo (Muscat/Tsutaka-cho, Okayama City, Okayam…
04 Feb 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
In this series, architectural historian and architect Terunobu Fujimori, who has traveled extensively to study buildings of various times and places, will be introducing a selection of notably intrigu…
09 Dec 2021
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Kaisen Donya Shipping Agency, Takita Family Residence/Window and the closet
This is the former residence of the Takita family, former shipping agents in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture. The depth of the thick section of the closet is enough for the window to be deep-set, dimm…
03 Dec 2021
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Issue 2: The Buried Black Roofs : Orchid Island (Part 1)
,While we may often speak of “Taiwanese people,” people belonging to a variety of ethnicities and religions live in Taiwan. While I flew to Taiwan’s main island for this installment,…
11 Nov 2021
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Japan House London presents Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan
The Window Research Institute is pleased to announce the exhibition Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan, from 1 December 2021 until 24 April 2022 at Japan House London. Booking from here. …
01 Oct 2021
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Windows of the Prouvé House｜Jean Prouvé’s Windows #2
…. ,, Window #4: Vertical Sliding Windows Vertical sliding windows are used in the study, children’s room, master bedroom, guest room, and part of the kitchen. The one-meter-wide components are made fr…
22 Oct 2021
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House of Sato Mataroku/Window for inner warehouses
A mercantile house in Masuda, Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, with a history of around 350 years. It has been designated as an important national cultural property. This building in Masuda-cho, which i…
07 Sep 2021
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Four Tectonic Features that Reside Within Prouvé’s Window Details
Jean Prouvé was originally a metalworker by trade, but he became a leading modernist architect himself through collaborating with progressive architects such as Le Corbusier. He is particularly known …
04 Aug 2021
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Former Sugihara Residence/Repeated Window for Sericulture
Folk museum in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. This building was constructed by relocating the 1864 private residence of a wealthy farmer in Shimamura (now Kuwashima, Hakusan). Up until the Edo period, …
09 Jul 2021
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Logging Railway Engine Shed/Window of the Former Forestry
This is a wooden one-story logging railway engine shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The trains enter and leave from the double-opening wooden doors at the front. The doors can be fixed open …
07 May 2021
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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi, Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp, Indian salmon, scallops, and herring. There are generally three types of smoking techniques with different te…
03 Feb 2021
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Ehime Sanshu/Window of the Sericulture House
Three-story wooden sericulture house in Yawatahama, Ehime Prefecture, built in 1884. The building is still being used today. The interior features double sliding sweep-out windows along the corridors …
20 Jan 2021
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Muto Dyeing/Window of the Drying Tower
A dyeing factory in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The plant has a tower-shaped drying area remarkable even among nearby plants, with a ceiling of approximately 9.5 m high. The fabrics dyed on t…
02 Dec 2020
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Suzuki Morihisa Studio/Window of the Ironware Studio
…g of the ironware after setting are done facing a sliding window set high up on the southeast wall so that the area around the artisan’s hands does not succumb to shade. Another high window set above …
20 Oct 2020
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Uzen Silk Scouring/Window for Steam Discharge
…lant, the wooden building has a monitor roof, the sliding windows of which can be opened and closed from below with a cord. ,,,,Uzen Silk Scouring (Silk/Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture) ,This artic…
08 Sep 2020
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Movie “A City of Columns”
,movie “A City of Columns” ,Hashirama sōchi (intercolumnar device) is a term used concerning cultural assets that refers to any architectural element that can be placed in the bays between columns. Ex…
03 Aug 2020
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The Architecture of the Window
…easy or how difficult it would be to open them as sliding windows, and found that they needed to be very, very light. The result is a strongly rhythmical façade made of white marble from Carrara with …
07 May 2020
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Religion and Cities: Isfahan, Iran
,I experienced no small amount of culture shock in Iran, as it was the first Islamic country I visited. Many of the people I passed on the street were male, while bus seats for men and women are divid…
19 Feb 2020
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Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan Exhibition at Japan House London
Japan House London is temporarily closed to hinder the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Any changes to the above status will be communicated through our website or social media. https://www.japanhous…
03 Feb 2020
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Thresholds between Coexistence and Architecture
Tom Avermaete is an architectural theorist who teaches at ETH Zurich. Besides working on numerous books and architectural exhibitions focusing on the relationship between public spaces and architectur…
25 Jun 2019
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Sash Window
,A window that opens and closes by moving two or more parallel panels vertically over two or more grooves or rails is called a double sliding window, where both the top and bottom panels move. These s…
12 Jun 2019
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Coffee & Cake
The window of a café in Myeongdong, Seoul. It is composed of folding windows with metal frames on the top, and a showcase window with sliding glass doors on the bottom. An additional aluminum sheet fo…
03 Jul 2017
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Yabeya Konomi Honke/Window of the Green Tea Merchant
Konomi Honke is a long-established retailer that has sold Yame green tea in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, for around 300 years. The current building was constructed during the Edo Period. A cover was late…
02 Apr 2019
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Hidaka Training and Research Center (JRA)/Window of the Horse Track
… along the track. On the north side, glass double-sliding windows keep the wind from entering during the winter. The south side has no glass and the opening is covered only by a screen door. The side …
19 Feb 2019
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Takekobo/Window of the Bamboo Workshop
A bamboo workshop in Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, established about 140 years ago. To be able to open its narrow front window as widely as possible, the sliding storm shutters are built in the form of la…
05 Feb 2019
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Higoya/Window of the Sea Bream Miso Store
This restaurant in Tomonoura, Hiroshima Prefecture specializes in sea bream miso. Under the building’s eaves are multiple double-sliding glass doors; on the raised tatami flooring inside, staff receiv…
21 Dec 2018
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Movie “The Birth Canal”
,movie “The Birth Canal” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components between pillars. Specifically, the hashirama equipment …
17 Jan 2017
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Looking at Freespace through the Windows, Part 1
…ide when rotated 180 degrees) is more common than sliding windows. This window is also used in the Svizzera 240 – House Tour exhibit, as it is the standard window in Switzerland. The windows for…
07 Sep 2018
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America (1)
…glass panes were gradually replaced by vertically sliding windows. ,,,Mansard Roofs and Dormer Windows Mansard roofs, which are pitched roofs that are modified to have steep slopes at the bottom and s…
19 Jan 2017
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Movie “THE CORALLUM”
,movie “THE CORALLUM” ,“Hashirama equipment” is a term used for cultural assets and refers to the entire architectural components between pillars. Specifically, the hashirama equipment inc…
10 Jul 2018
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Architectural Ethnography, Part B
…g the first semester to learn about how different sliding windows open horizontally, how the panes of doors and windows can be easily swapped out. It serves to give them a sense of the vocabulary of J…
07 Jun 2018
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Part 1: Tai-an at Myoki-an Temple
… screen) next to the alcove; shitaji-mado (single sliding window) next to nijiri-guchi (crawl-through entrance); and renji-mado (double-sliding windows) above the nijiri-guchi. The following drawings …
17 May 2018
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Windows as Connectors between the Inside and Outside
Architect Ryue Nishizawa has designed a wide variety of projects, including houses, a church, a station square, and art museums. He has also found international success through SANAA, a practice that …
06 Sep 2016
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Iwanoi Shuzo/Window of the Sake Brewery
…rought in from a continuous line of wooden double sliding windows along the north side while the steam from the steamed rice is expelled from a large vent and clerestory windows positioned above the k…
24 Aug 2018
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Tenjin Sanshi Kojo/Window of the Paper Factory
…de in a stack. The work area is lined with wooden sliding windows that provide the natural light needed for the craft workers to check the thickness of the paper. The windows are divided into three ro…
26 Apr 2018
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Movie “Transition of Kikugetsutei”
,,Kikugetsutei is a teahouse located in the early modern-age daimyo (feudal lord) garden “Ritsurin Garden”, in Takamatsu city, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. The building was used for having te…
28 Oct 2015
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Floors and Floods: Siem Reap, Part 2
As I dug my bicycle’s tires into the sand, they first moved me unsteadily forward until at last they no longer could. I had not yet reached the lake, but before me sprawled a riverside community…
08 Feb 2018
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Window into Another Culture
Veneer House Project, a series of projects implemented by Hiroto Kobayashi Laboratory at Keio University SFC, propose prototypes of deployable architecture made of plywood veneer boards, a commonly us…
30 Jan 2018
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Exhibition “Present State(ment)”
…an ordinary flush door with a floor height double sliding window. An entrance with a double sliding door was also in the north side and there was a level difference from the street, which made this pa…
27 May 2016
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Boundary Window
…nships among various things. ,,Konno: I suppose a sliding window is an attractive style that was invented within the conditions of Japanese wooden buildings, and I like it a lot. People usually accept…
27 May 2016
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Sunny Loggia House
Chie Konno(t e c o)”Sunny Loggia House” The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016 “En: art of nexus” is the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the 15th Intern…
27 May 2016
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Speedo’s Cafe
A cafe’s window facing a sloping road near Bondi Beach in Sydney, fitted with a combination of sliding windows and fixed windows. A counter is built into the window, where one can sit watching the bea…
14 Apr 2016
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la fenêtre à la française
… double sided door. This window is not a sideways sliding window like the Japanese traditional window, but a casement window that opens inward. By opening both of the windows, the wind jumps into the …
17 Sep 2015
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
One way to use an aperture is to pass physical things through it. In most cases apertures are installed at the border between an inside space and outside space. Through them people and things go in an…
15 Nov 2017
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Steel House
…ss ordinary and deviated way. I think that double sliding windows provide us senses of easy accessibility and openness. Fixed windows cannot be opened and thus give us a sense of closedness although t…
27 May 2016
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House at Komazawa Park
…en inside and outside. On the other hand, we used sliding windows or casement windows for the parts that we wanted to be open or for ventilation. Imamura: I suppose it’s very important whether the spa…
27 May 2016
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Before Being Maiko Kurogouchi of mame
The sound of air spewing out from the A/C grew louder and then fainter; the second hand of the clock on the wall resounded overdramatically as it dutifully ticked out the seconds one after another. Fr…
05 Oct 2015
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Window and Passive Design
Prof. Kodama was spotlighted who has published a multiple number of projects centered on “passiveness,” attracting public notice. He eloquently spoke of the role and attractiveness and further the cha…
10 Jun 2013
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House of Itakura as a Core-House
Window Research Institute interviewed with Mr. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, representative of Atelier Bow-Wow about “House of Itakura” as a Core-House which is proposed as a minimal regional rehabilitation ho…
24 May 2013
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Concept of a Window
Mr. Taro Igarashi interviewed Architect Hiroshi Hara who gave influence and posed problems. The interview was attempted to ascertain the results of human settlement survey and the concept of windows, …
24 May 2013
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Window and Sharing (First Half)
Interviewed are now widely noted architects, Yuri Naruse and Jun Inokuma, who are well known for their project on the theme of “sharing.” The talk is centered on the role and enchantment as well as a …
24 May 2013
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Experimenting with Windows
The following is an interview with architect Sou Fujimoto, who has designed many internationally recognized projects and continues to propose new possibilities for architecture. We asked him about the…
14 Jan 2014