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Toyo ito metropolitan opera house
Toyo ito metropolitan opera house






His current projects include Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos (tentative title) and National Taichung Theater. Ito's major works include Silver Hut, Yatsushiro Municipal Museum, Odate Jukai Dome, Sendai Mediatheque, Tama Art University Library (Hachioji campus), Main Stadium for the World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, and National Taiwan University, College of Social Sciences. In 1979, the office's name was changed to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects. Established his own office, Urbot, in 1971. Worked at Kikutake Architects from 1965 to 1969. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1965. At long last, we can look back over the trail we have traversed during these years.īorn in 1941. The energy that my team has exerted over the course of nine years is steadily being converted into the power of a built object, and the individual effort of each person will soon be transformed into a great joy.

TOYO ITO METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE TRIAL

How should the three opera theaters, rehearsal rooms, and a restaurant be inserted into the structure of continuous curved surfaces? How should the curved walls be organized into a rational structural system? What construction method can be used to realize all of this within the budget? After repeated trial and error, the project has finally arrived to the point where it is just one more step away from completion. These past nine years have been riddled with challenges. I aimed to create the architecture of this opera house in such a way that the inside and outside are continuous in a similar manner to how bodies are connected to nature through organs such as the mouth, nose, and ears. Similarly to how the human body contains many tubular organs, the interior of this building is penetrated horizontally and vertically by tubular spaces. It may be called a building, but it can also be compared to a human body. Its basic form is a square box, but its interior is made largely of three-dimensionally curved surfaces that blur the distinction between floor, wall, and ceiling. The “white cave” that I had proposed in the competition held in late 2005 will soon be realized as a real work of architecture.

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The final form of the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House has now begun to take shape after the passing of nine years.






Toyo ito metropolitan opera house