Kazuko Akamatsu outlines Shibuya skyscraper design in video by CCA
In the second Models Talk film published in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Japanese architect Kazuko Akamatsu explains how she used voids to create a feeling of openness at the Shibuya Stream skyscraper in Japan.
The nine-minute video, aptly named A Matter of Void, takes viewers through the design process of creating the 37-storey skyscraper and retail complex in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Snippets of a scaled model are woven in between video footage of the finished building, as a voiceover by Akamatsu sheds light on how it is designed to connect visitors to the outside.
Shibuya Stream in Tokyo is the focus of the film A Matter of Void
A Matter of Void is one of three videos being published this week by the research institution and museum Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in partnership with Dezeen. The film series, named Models Talk, explores recent architecture projects in Japan that address different urban issues. Each video is available to watch in Japanese with English subtitles.
The first video, published yesterday, saw architect Erika Nakagawa share her vision for a skinny residential tower on a small and dense site in Tokyo.
Kazuko Akamatsu discusses the skyscraper's design in the film with a scaled model
Shibuya Stream was developed by Akamatsu as part of Coelacanth and Associates, an architecture studio where she is a partner. In A Matter of Void, she focuses specifically on the design of the building's lower levels, which are punctured by a se...
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