Urban Abstraction

Designboom recently featured the temporary wood structures of ryuichi ashizawa architects. One of the structures in particular was striking. The simplistic plywood in a short jagged accordion form creates a really unique sense of space (pictured below). The dynamism of the form coupled with the strictly controlled view framed by the opening really feels like an urban abstraction - to the extent that urban environments are full of movement and yet impossible to view more than small excerpts at a time. As you stroll down the streets as familiar or foreign as they may be - you cannot help but see a mixture of structures, skyscraper to rowhouse - commercial to residential, and your movement changes the ratio of types and the types of folks, therefore, that you would encounter. The location of this structure on an island surrounded by city furthers this removed abstraction of the urban environment.

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image courtesy ryuichi ashizawa architects

image courtesy ryuichi ashizawa architects

image courtesy ryuichi ashizawa architects

image courtesy ryuichi ashizawa architects