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year 2010
material plant fiber
source title Terunobu Fujimori: Architect
info “When I saw the beautiful location with its big mountain lake, two ideas immediately occurred to me: the first was that I should use bamboo for the teahouse, and the second that it should be shaped like a boat (this idea was realized in the Bōchabune project). Taiwan is a land rich in bamboo, and it has a number of rare bamboo species. In Japan and China, there is also a lot of bamboo, but until then I had not tried to include it in designs. The reason was that people quickly identity the origin of bamboo and then assume they understand what kind of architecture it is—“Oh, this is from Japan” and “Oh, this is from China”—without recognizing the quality of the design beyond tradition or nationality. The tallest bamboo in the world grows in Taiwan, but most Taiwanese do not know that it actually exits. Until the Irisentei, it had never been used in architecture because it is simply too big for traditional techniques. I decided to change that. In line with the request to set the teahouse higher than the Takasugi-an (Too-High Teahouse), its floor floats at a height of 7.2 meters.”.
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year 2010
material plant fiber
source title Terunobu Fujimori: Architect
info “When I saw the beautiful location with its big mountain lake, two ideas immediately occurred to me: the first was that I should use bamboo for the teahouse, and the second that it should be shaped like a boat (this idea was realized in the Bōchabune project). Taiwan is a land rich in bamboo, and it has a number of rare bamboo species. In Japan and China, there is also a lot of bamboo, but until then I had not tried to include it in designs. The reason was that people quickly identity the origin of bamboo and then assume they understand what kind of architecture it is—“Oh, this is from Japan” and “Oh, this is from China”—without recognizing the quality of the design beyond tradition or nationality. The tallest bamboo in the world grows in Taiwan, but most Taiwanese do not know that it actually exits. Until the Irisentei, it had never been used in architecture because it is simply too big for traditional techniques. I decided to change that. In line with the request to set the teahouse higher than the Takasugi-an (Too-High Teahouse), its floor floats at a height of 7.2 meters.”.
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