Airport Designer-Designed Birdhouses

INDEX

Renzo Piano

Norman Foster

Kisho Kurokawa
(Japan)

An elliptical hole opens in an elliptical rotating body.
The elliptical rotating body is suspended within a cube. A square hole opens in the cube.
The cube is suspended within a sphere. A circular hole opens in the sphere.
The sphere is suspended from the ceiling, however as the ceiling is so far away it may be suspended from the branch of a tree.
The elliptical rotating body, the cube, and the sphere are all suspended, and the relationships between them become instantaneously different due to rotation, vibration, slippage, and twisting.
The bird exists within the elliptical rotating body, however is it able to escape into the world of the cube via the elliptical hole.
The bird is able to make the cube the world's end, and also to escape to the world of the sphere via the square hole.
The bird is unaware of the freely visible world being surrounded by the spherical atmosphere.
The birdhouse following the escape of the bird is not a world of emptiness.
The bird is an entity, with the space itself also being an entity. The world becomes a space by limitation.
The space contains a hole, and is always in relation to the unlimited world.

RFR/Jean-Francis Blassel+Henry Bardsley+Kieran Rice+Bernard Vaudeville

Gained public attention at Osaka Exposition of 1970 and the central bank's capsule tower. Since then, worked on public buildings such as government offices and buildings, art museums, and halls. Won various awards such as Mainichi Art Award, Japanese Architecture Society Award, and Japanese Academy of Art Award. Also in overseas, received French Academy of Architecture Gold Medals, Richard Neutra Award, Order of French Art and Culture, Biennial International Gran Prix Medal for Architecture, AIA Los Angeles Pacific Rim Award for Architecture, International Real Estate Institute (FIABCI) 1997 World Award of excellence in architecture.

Kazunori Sameshima

Nicholas T. Grimshaw

Curtis W. Fentress+J.H.Bradburn

Yoshihiko Sano+Kozo Abe+Koichi Ando

Kisho Kurokawa