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movie running time : 3'
12''
place : Brugge,
Belgium
architect
: Toyo Ito
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Belgium is proud of Brugge
for having a lot of middle
antique architectures. Brugge
is the finest cultural city.
In 2002, UNESCO had selected
Brugge as the europe's cultural
city. In honor of this selection,
Brugge had prepared new
finest memorial pavilion
in front of the beautiful
palace on the Brug plaza.
This site had originally
had the small church that
was destructed in war. The
japanese architect, Toyo
Ito, had designed for new
memorial. I can assume that
his design with the traditionally
Brugge's land history. His
design is simple. This pavilion
is the type of bridge on
the swallow lake that has
the 11.5 meters diameters.
This radius means the the
Brugge's characters. Brugge
had been constructed on
the water. There are a lot
of small bridges and beautiful
canals. And then, Toyo Ito
had set the u-shaped roof
of the bridge on the this
small artificial lake. The
lake's form is a circular.
When I had visited there
first time in 2003. Many
small red and yellow fishes
were playing in a lake.
Now not any more. In america,
There are many U-Shaped
roof over the bridge made
by wood. Toyo had used the
aluminium materials that
are perforated like a honeycomb.
You can see many hearts
symbols on the roof and
walls. I think that this
hearts are the secret of
the structure in this pavilion.
The height of pavilion is
4m, and the length is 6.3m.
When you jump in this space
like a children, You can
see a small vibration and
wave on the lake. I felt
the very bright and clear
spaces even though the architect
had said this has the blurring
architecture.
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