Junya Ishigami inspired Model
life of the city assignment 3
Junya Ishigami is Japanese architect born in Kanagawa in 1974.
He is one of the most famous contemporary architects from Japan.
He is perhaps best known for his delicate buildings.
For Junya Ishigami, architecture is a field of infinite possibilities that affect every area of life, raising existential questions and requiring both scientific and artistic observation. demonstrates what an environment that bases social life on organic principles might look like.
“A quality of nature is that it is governed by certain rules which at the same time we’re never really aware of… I am interested in creating something that would merge into this normalcy that surrounds us”.- Ishigami
His design shows his philosophy about how humans and nature relate to one another.
He designs buildings in nature’s purest form, such as giant cloud or rhythmical layouts of columns representing woods. And using fragile thin line and transparent glass walls shows that after all, man is just as fragile as a part of physical world After all, man is just as fragile as a part of that physical world; he is born, lives, changes and disappears only to begin again as part of an eternal cycle (Vandermarliere, 2013).
His use of glass and steel structures in the garden in the Japanese pavilion in Venice, as it’s name ‘Extreme Nature’
What caught my eyes in his designs the most is that he kept the ideas that is so fragile almost unimaginable for many other architects and brought nature’s purest form into a somewhat predictable industry.
The place selected for design is student lounge located in UTS insearch, 187 Thomas St, Haymarket NSW 2000.

I wanted to change this place into where students can relax and breathe fresh air by drawing connections to nature.
visible and invisible wires, floor-to-ceiling glass walls are used, the layout’s not measured to be perfect in uniform but to follow nature’s rhythmical layouts.







Reference list
www.indesignlive.sg/people/junya-ishigami-a-new-architectural-wave
chinatsu kuma, how small? how vast? how architecture grows,2013, hatje cantz