{"id":248,"date":"2007-01-09T07:54:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2007-01-09T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T22:54:45","slug":"outside-in-architecture-versus-inside-out-architecture-pt2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Outside-in architecture versus inside-out architecture pt2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I visited japan for the first time, I went to an exhibition on Japanese architecture where I saw a model of Fumihiko Maki’s<\/a> Spiral building. In the design Maki had to accomodate a complex programme including a bar-cafe, a theatre, exhibition and music space under one roof. When I visited the building 3 months later I noticed that the programme was well defined. The name too, Spiral, was very clear: the elements spiral upwards almost effortlessly upwards throughout the building. But the exterior, the elements that I saw on the top of the model were only visibleif I had a bird-eye view, like I had with the model. Architecture, here I felt, was reduced to the creation of models, models that in the end (in its built form) would be nothing more than useless shapes wrapped around a programme. Did I witness the end of architecture, here in this prime example of bubble architecture? Was this inside-out architecture that still wanted some of the old glory: outside-in and wrap it together?
\nIt is a well-known fact that during the Japanese real estate bubble<\/a> in the mid 1980’s the cost of land was far greater than the construction cost of the building. Thus buildings such as Philippe Starck’s La Flame D’or<\/a> a building of which the flame-like element on top seems to have cost more than the rest of the building. Due to the astronomical land prices, the cost of construction was marginal and in a way did not seem to matter. Philippe Starck<\/a> is a designer, well-known for his furniture and the building has object-like qualities. The building reduced to a sign<\/a>, in a city of signs, the end of architecture?<\/p>\n

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