Tadao Ando Concrete Wall

It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
Tadao ando concrete wall. Ando is hardly the first architect to embrace concrete. Tadao ando concrete dirty plates seamless 19043. Comes in 4 x 8. The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.
Tadao ando concrete plates seamless 01909. Available with matching newedge band for seamless border. Church of the light osaka credit. The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
Tadao ando and the concept of the wall with the designs of azuma house in 1979 and koshino house in 1980 one of the most important traits of the japanese architect s artistic philosophy of composition emerges that is the wall. Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright. Carving a cruciform into a reinforced concrete wall evokes such a pure feeling of spirituality it seems ludicrous it hadn t been done before 1989. Ando s perfectly smooth exposed concrete walls are juxtaposed with raw steel handrails and a spiral stair ascending the atrium.
He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence. Seen from below where the dark stone base and wall is more prominent the blank concrete façade with its narrow vertical slits and pseudo openings resembles a cubic spyglass. Is there a project that you feel encapsulates the key principles you ve tried to explore throughout your career. Ando concrete dxn 5324x finish is textured and has a very rough surface.