Teshima Art Museum - Ruye Nishizawa in DETAIL

From Teshima Island, by Nishizawa and Rei Naito, this could be the typical structure that reflects something contrary to what we always comment: "build the house from the roof". Organic and minimalist at the same time, Ryue Nishizawa, colleague of famous Kazuyo Sejima, this building is imbued with the aesthetics evanescent sensory and abstract works of the study. The project is presented with the cooperation and participation of the artist Rei Naito with resins, using small pieces, like drops of water, emphasizes extreme sensitivity of the nature of the place.

Plan. Courtesy Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.

Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds surrounded by once-fallow rice terraces that have been restored with help from local residents. Was designed to interact with its surrounding, pushing the tangible boundary between architecture and nature.

Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell (at 25 cm thick), devoid of pillars, covering a space 40 by 60 meters. On the ceiling 4.5 meters above, two oval openings allow the air, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture seem intimately interconnected. Inside one finds an ever-flowing fountains and an ambiance that changes from hour to hour and season to season, revealing countless appearances as time passes.

Below, video on the construction of the museum.

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Site plan. Courtesy Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.uación. Cortesía de Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.

Sections. Courtesy Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.

Contextual site plan. Courtesy Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.

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RYUE NISHIZAWA

Ryue Nishizawa. Architect. Born in 1966 in Tokyo. In 1990, he graduated from Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture, Yokohama National University, and joined Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. In 1995, he founded a firm named SANAA together with Kazuyo Sejima. He established Office of Ryue Nishizawa in 1997. In 2001, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture, Yokohama National University (Y-GSA), and has been a Y-GSA Professor since 2010.

His numerous awards include the Golden Lion Award of the 9th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

His main works include: International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) Multimedia Studio*, Weekend House, Dior Omotesando Store*, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa*, Moriyama House, House A, The Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art*, Marine Station Naoshima*, Stadttheater Almer (De Kunstlinie)*, New Museum*, Towada Art Center, ROLEX Learning Center*, Teshima Art Museum. * SANAA design collaborated with Kazuyo Sejima.

REI NAITO

Rei Naito. Born in Hiroshima, 1961. Degree in visual communication design from Musashino Art University, 1985. Major exhibitions and projects include Une place sur la Terre (1997, Japanese Pavillion, The 47th Venice Biennale), Being Called (1997, Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main), Being Given (2001, Kinza Naoshima Art House Project, Benesse Art Site Naoshima), Une place sur la terre/Tokyo 2002 (2002, Rice Gallery by G2, Tokyo), Une place sur la terre/New York 2003 (2003, D'Amelio Terras, New York), matrix (2007, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama), and Tout animal est dans le monde comme de l'eau à l'intérieur de l'eau (2009, the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa).