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Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Porous Manifold Japanese Tearoom in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato of F.a.d.s recognized for fine arts and art installation design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category for Porous Manifold Japanese Tearoom by Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato of F.a.d.s, designed for F.A.D.S + Fujiki Studio, KOU::ARC. The result belongs to the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Porous Manifold Japanese Tearoom
This is a temporary Japanese tearoom exhibited in Echigo-tsumari Art Triennale 2018 and has a nested structure with two-tatami space embedded in ten foot square. In this exhibition, architects were asked to respond to the theme of how to overcome the concept of homogeneous space that was dominant in the 20th century. The skeleton was designed using the random pattern which was called Voronoi Division to distort homogeneous space. And it was proposed that the architecture with a large number of holes what could be opened and closed as needed to communicate with the outside like a living thing.
About Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato
Ryumei (Takaaki) Fujiki completed his MA and the Doctor of Engineering at the University of Tokyo under Prof. Hiroshi Hara and Prof. Akira Fujii. He founded F.A.D.S in 1991. He has been teaching as a professor at the department of architecture of Kogakuin University (KOU::ARC),Tokyo since 2001. He has a great interest in nature especially the advanced system of nature. Yukiko Sato joined F.A.D.S as a design partner since 2000. She graduated from Japan Women's University. Now, She is teaching at Japan Women's University as a Lecturer. F.A.D.S has made numerous practical works in Japan.
About F.a.d.s
F.A.D.S has been founded in 1991 by Ryumei Fujiki as an architectural design office to design house, commercial building, shop interior, health facility, and cultural complex etc. F.A.D.S has made numerous practical works in Japan.
Award Record
With this recognition, Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato of F.a.d.s is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2011 - 2012 and the 2018 - 2019 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Typical entries include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. The awarded art designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/72501
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/72501
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!72501
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/115055
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.fads-design.jp
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Porous Manifold Japanese Tearoom
- Function
- Japanese Tearoom
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Rosy Brown, Gray, Dark Gray and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- F.A.D.S + Fujiki Studio, KOU::ARC
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato
- Country
- Japan
- Brand
- F.a.d.s
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #72501
Credits
- Team
- Ryumei Fujiki, Yukiko Sato, F.A.D.S + Fujiki Studio, KOU::ARC, Yu Ohno, Seiya Ueki, Kento Watanabe, Yuta Kimura and Shun Takimoto
- Image Credits
- Masahiro Hoshida, Fujiki Studio, KOU::ARC
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a temporary Japanese tearoom and a nested structure with two-tatami space embedded in ten foot square. In this exhibition, architects were asked to respond to the theme of how to overcome the concept of homogeneous space which was dominant in the 20th century. It is distorted homogeneous space to create irregularities by the random pattern of the skeleton and proposed an art-tecture with many holes which are open and close as necessary to communicate with the outside like living things.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by Hojoki ("An Account of My Hut"), written in the Middle Ages, to survive in our troubled times, about thirty groups of architects and artists selected through the open call (Jury: Hiroshi Hara, Ryue Nishizawa, Fram Kitagawa) exhibited their "hojo" (ten foot square hut) which represented their worldviews. In this exhibition, architects were especially asked to respond to the theme of how to overcome the concept of homogeneous space which was dominant in the 20th century.
- Research
- Towards the generation of "heterogeneous space", we studied from a point of geometrical viewpoint. Homogeneous space is geometrically equivalent to 3D Euclidean space. The biggest problem of homogeneous space is that our imagination is captured by it, but in order to overcome this, it is necessary to extend the concept of homogeneous space rather than deny it. Just as Einstein discovered, it is important to introduce a structure that "space is distorted". It is distorted homogeneous space to create irregularities using random patterns found in various shapes and phenomena in nature (VORONOI DIVISION).
- Challenge
- Modern office buildings made in the 20th century are separated from the external environment by a closed curtain wall. Then, using the lighting and air conditioning equipment, it is idea to control so that all places are homogenous and constant environment artificially. However, we need enormous energy, which is a major factor of global environmental problems. It is important not to block the external environment and the internal space, but to open and close as necessary, that is, to create a building responsive to the external environment. Then it was created a living-like architecture.
- Realization and Technology
- It is made of a hybrid of spruce CLT panels and plastic materials processed using digital fabrication technology.
- Operation and Interaction
- As you enter inside, this art-tecture (architecture) feels you and begins to breathe like a living thing. Specifically to say, many holes called BREATHING PLEATS start opening and closing according to the movement of people.
- Project Duration and Location
- This work was exhibited in "Hojoki Shiki in 2018: The Universe of Ten Foot Square Huts by Architects and Artists" as a special exhibition during from July 29th to September 17th in Echigo-tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Niigata Pref. in Japan. In the present day, the global Financial capitalism has an impact on all regions, which have been required to accept the improved efficiency, rationalization and homogenization. This exhibition was an opportunity for the architects and artists to present their own Hojoki Shiki, proposing different "hojo", the minimum model of Japanese architecture.
- Specifications
- Width, Depth and Height are 2730mm each. This dimension was called a "Jo" in the old words in Japan.
- Keywords
- Porous Manifold, Breathing Pleats, Voronoi Division, Japanese Tearoom
