Kazuyo Sejima, Japanese female architect, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the authority of the architecture in 2010. She also acquired the Golden Lion Award of the Venice Architectural Biennale. With the concept of penetration and circulation, she designs a series of the coordination between the nature and human beautiful architecture, which shows the female model in the history of the architecture.
The early famous architectural works
No matter for the principle of the natural optics reflection of the Toledo Museum of Art in America (left) or the opened-spacious principle from the Museum of Contemporary Art (right) in New York, those are the unique, incredible and fashionable architecture. These are the attempting progress in architecture~
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
The entire round design is likely to be integrated in the natural Greenland. Besides, the circular of the design can also increase the visual spaces of it. Although every single parts of the museum looks quite independent, they are connected well with each other.
The most attractive place would be the swimming pool. It looks quite to the normal pool. In fact, it is applied with various visual principals for trigger our thinking abilities.
Kazuyo Sejima separates the water of the pool into 2 by using with the glasses. That’s why we can enjoy watching things in the water, for example, the flowing water, the happenings occur outside of the pool……It offers us a change to compare the situation between the insides and outside of the pool and increate our imagination, such a fun building~
In addition, she also designed enough rest spaces and the floor-to-ceiling windows, which saves the power. This is definitely one of the environmental-friendly design, suits for having the family fun. Besides, in order to preserve the space of the venue, the thin column is used to instead of the think one, shows the visual beauty of it.
In the evening, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art highlights the contrast between higher and lower part of it. There is no doubt why Kazuyo Sejima won for the above 2 awards.
Recent year works
Grace Farms River Building
She also built with the blended river according to the different height of the terrain. It is about 7000-meter length, which is another ideal coordination work between nature and urban development.
And for the interior design, it is made with the natural wood, for example, the roof of the houses or the chairs, bringing us the comfortable and natural enjoyment.
Hitachi Station
Located to Kazuyo Sejima’s hometown, Hitachi, it is built along with the coast. The whole design of it makes you feel like living in the aquarium. We can figure the beauty scene of the bay through the glass.
In addition to this, Kazuyo Sejima also uses the blue glass to represent the stunning endless sea view and the blue sky of Hitachi, providing us the lively beautiful picture. Whether you are waiting for the car or enjoying with the delicious food, you can enjoy this gorgeous unique experience.
Have you ever seen the seven-colors passengers? In order to enrich the visual effect, she turned part of the exterior glass into the colored one, which creates the colorful corridor by reflecting the colorful lights once the glasses get touch with the UV light. You are suggested to get there to watch it.