3. Emptiness_between Transparent and White
Tokyo white One of the important issues after modernization is the structure of open space, if the city planning in the past is making infrastructure to make the base of the city and the structure of the city becomes the base of it as the response of the function of the city itself and the density for it. Of course the meaning as the operation of urban function and the density for it does not change a lot. Though there are many kinds of open spaces demanding each function and character, i think the open space of japan is working different from that of korea in spite of the similarity of the east. Japanese gardens are white void that fulled although they are empty. Surely they seems empty spaces. But they don’t feel empty. Trees planted there, laid stones, and flowing water are as constructive as architecture. It is also found that the character of white in japanese gardens is experienced in the space of residence. I see the garden of the house. The flowerpots of it seem to place at random, but have more presence that the trees planted on the ground. Moriyama house shows that its character can be flexibly applied to multiplex residence. There is no device to divide between the road and the site. It seems that no one except foreigners like me ‘invades’ the space. (Actually the attention sign written only in english is placed at the entrance of the outer space.) Flowerpots are furniture, sign, wall and their boundary is forward the relation of the outside. Between the inside and the outside there exists a strong and understanding relationship. The duplicity makes us read the original form of reinterpreted housing and makes it possible to be with former housing form without any sense of difference, in spite of the concern about external open.
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