UKIGUMO - Floating clouds
MoNo : F.NAGASHIMA & M.MARUOKA NAGASHIMA
Yokohama // Japon
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Le projet fait appel à une atmosphère de France médiévale répondant à un style ancien japonais. Des colonnes fines symbolisent les colonnes des constructions japonaises traditionnelles et répondent aux colonnes françaises de la cour. Une nouvelle relation nait entre l’espace japonais et la cour grâce aux nuages flottants «UKIGUMO», trait de caractère typique des peintures traditionnelles japonaises, ils servent habituellement de lien entre différentes scènes dans les tableaux. La lumière traverse et se faufile à travers les ballons, offrant une atmosphère entre ombre et lumière permettant une relation intime entre nos deux cultures.
The stage we try to create is a place filled with atmosphere of medieval France. Therefore we set a theme «the encounter ot two old styles of France and Japan» as the concept of our installation. In the courtyard, some clustered columns produce a space with Japanese independent sense, implying a Japanese traditional building. With the hotel’s own columns, we let two diferent countries columns emphasize their individuality with their own style. A new relationship will born betwen two styles of columns thanks floating clouds «UKIGUMO», one of so important characters of Japanese old painting. In old pictures they are used as border and also connection between different scenes.We will fulfill this art work with contemporary industrial standard products, not Japanese traditional special materials. By passing through several layers of nonwoven fabric balloons, daylight changes unevenlyand makes the unpredictable gradation of atmosphere between shadow and light.
MoNo : F.NAGASHIMA & M.MARUOKA NAGASHIMA
Yokohama // Japon
MoNo est une agence japonaise d’architecture de première classe basée à Yokohama, composée de deux architectes, Fumiaki Nagashima et Mami Maruoka Nagashima. L’agence est investie dans l’enseignement de l’architecture sous plusieurs formes et dans l’architecture à différentes échelles : design, architecture urbaine, architecture d’intérieur et de produits, l’art de l’installation, le graphisme et la vidéo... En 2009, MoNo remporte un concours d’installation et d’exposition artistique en Autriche «Light and atmosphere in the Japanese Way» dans le cadre du 140ème anniversaire du jumelage japonais-autrichien. MoNo s’est fait remarqué au cours de différents concours et expositions, (Daylight Spaces, TIA Scholarship Award 2007...). Le travail de MoNo se base sur une atmosphère japonaise unique en utilisant des technologies contemporaines et non pas en se limitant aux méthodes et matériaux traditionnels.
MoNo is a Japanese first class architectural offi ce of two architects : Fumiaki Nagashima and Mami Maruoka Nagashima, in Yokohama, Japan. In 2009, MoNo carried out an exhibition of installation art «Light and Atmosphere in the Japanese way» in a suburb of Vienna, Autria, for the 140th friendship anniversary Japan-Austria. It expressed a space like Japanese bamboo forest, with many devices put lushly that moved softly and changed lights and atmosphere. Their work had been noticed in Japan and abroad. The common denominator of their activities, installation art, product and architecture is to make up a world that has Japanese unique atmosphere by contemporary industrial technology, not by especial or limited traditional method and material. We will retry to create our own world in the FAV 2010.
MoNo is a Japanese first class architectural offi ce of two architects : Fumiaki Nagashima and Mami Maruoka Nagashima, in Yokohama, Japan. In 2009, MoNo carried out an exhibition of installation art «Light and Atmosphere in the Japanese way» in a suburb of Vienna, Autria, for the 140th friendship anniversary Japan-Austria. It expressed a space like Japanese bamboo forest, with many devices put lushly that moved softly and changed lights and atmosphere. Their work had been noticed in Japan and abroad. The common denominator of their activities, installation art, product and architecture is to make up a world that has Japanese unique atmosphere by contemporary industrial technology, not by especial or limited traditional method and material. We will retry to create our own world in the FAV 2010.
Le projet fait appel à une atmosphère de France médiévale répondant à un style ancien japonais. Des colonnes fines symbolisent les colonnes des constructions japonaises traditionnelles et répondent aux colonnes françaises de la cour. Une nouvelle relation nait entre l’espace japonais et la cour grâce aux nuages flottants «UKIGUMO», trait de caractère typique des peintures traditionnelles japonaises, ils servent habituellement de lien entre différentes scènes dans les tableaux. La lumière traverse et se faufile à travers les ballons, offrant une atmosphère entre ombre et lumière permettant une relation intime entre nos deux cultures.
The stage we try to create is a place filled with atmosphere of medieval France. Therefore we set a theme «the encounter ot two old styles of France and Japan» as the concept of our installation. In the courtyard, some clustered columns produce a space with Japanese independent sense, implying a Japanese traditional building. With the hotel’s own columns, we let two diferent countries columns emphasize their individuality with their own style. A new relationship will born betwen two styles of columns thanks floating clouds «UKIGUMO», one of so important characters of Japanese old painting. In old pictures they are used as border and also connection between different scenes.We will fulfill this art work with contemporary industrial standard products, not Japanese traditional special materials. By passing through several layers of nonwoven fabric balloons, daylight changes unevenlyand makes the unpredictable gradation of atmosphere between shadow and light.
