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Sendai
Mediatheq
ue

structural steel
 open house plans

 Architect
Toyo Ito +

Designed in

 1995-1997

Built in
1998-2001

 Land Area
3,948 m2

Floor Area
 2,844 m2

Location
Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Sendai Mediatheque
ARCHITECT: TOYO ITO
YEAR: 1998-2001
LOCATION: SENDAI, MIYAGI, JAPAN

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Introduction
 Sendai Mediatheque, a project which in 2006 receiv
British Architects (RIBA), can be hailed from various
functional signi cance for the residents of Sendai. B

 milestone that has tried to translate the architectur

world that characterizes our time.

The general concept for the competition since the c

 of 50 x 50 m, the media library should contain sever
galleries, cafes, etc..

The proposed Ito opted for transparency. Since the

views towards the rescues as well as the use of tree

It is above all a space where the ow of light and fra

The Media is based on the metaphor of Aquarium, i

with algae.

Location
The Media was built in the 2-1, Kasuga-cho, Aoba-ku

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Located 300 km north of Tokyo is a city of one millio

Matsushima Bay, one of the three most famous nat
and Amanohashidate isthmus. Some small churche
reason we Sendai has achieved international renow
works of the architect Toyo Ito.

Concept
The main idea which is built on the Sendai Mediathe
 not predetermined. So that the architect made ve

I want not to create together

 I want not to create beams

I want not to create walls
I want not to create room

 I want not to create architecture

This last wish is perhaps the most conditional work,

this far in this sense that this idea is re ected not on
 The building is dematerialises not think of interior-e
perfect harmony, it is necessary to create a softer co

Limite

Description
The Media is a glass 50 × 50 meters, 36 meters, with
through it from rst to last.

The technology is very present in this building, both

Plants are divided by use of forged steel base plates

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pillars are tubular metal soldiers. The latter are perh

the run from the rst to the oor and far from being
changing as increasing in height, varying in each we

It is a multifunctional building, open and dynamic, w

coordinated by the furniture. Their deployment on t
interrupt the ow of the user, the building can go th

Given the shape of the building might raise the que

apparently could pass through a cube, but its limits
dynamic and ambiguous, ever-changing, it is di cu
 Toyo Ito of this desire not to create forms as expres
wind, but think how wonderful it would be if there c

 the light wind.”

 Spaces
The street level, open square called, contains the re
 It is completely extroverted to the street.

The second level is the children’s library, internet ro

the furniture that de nes the space. A very interest
 area of Reading and the Private area of administrat
oating wall.

 At the third level and fourth level, the room is actua

reading rooms.

Limite

In the fth and sixth oor exhibition galleries are lo

rectilinear panels can be accommodated according
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the sliding doors of Japanese architecture.

The seventh oor is located a lm and conference r

“membrane”, matte glazed curvilinear shapes that a

Here are also an area of loan and audition tapes an

curved and organic.

Structure
 Formal Concept
The design is based on three basic elements:

1. The platforms in number 7, are the support fu
is actually a grid of metal beams welded to tw
 shipbuilding.
This grid can also be seen on the roof crownin
2. The tubes are 13 bundles of steel tubular stru
 structure like a seaweed, and maintain cross p

Scattered freely in the building, varying in sha

with light inside. The tube houses the largest v
 of the media.

Despite his frail appearance and transparent,

 horizontal and vertical stability to the building
constant.

3. The skin is a transparent membrane that allow

 exterior, and at times the boundary between t

The building’s structural system is made up w

the building, the oor are sheets of metal, and
combined.

The structure of the cell is built with reinforce

point of the plates the force is exerted on it is
reinforcements. The columns are made of ste
diameter.

At the time of the building to achieve the thre

elevators, escalators, etc..

Materials
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Based on the materials, steel and glass are predom

external and covering the pillars-yard, is made of gl

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Facades
 Ito suggested di erent facades according to the voc
main facade, located on the south side facing the bo
winter months, strong winds, is the most external a
 of the building.

The west side façade, which faces a lot, is opaque, c

 emergency staircases in the north and east facades

di erent nishes on each oor: glass polycarbonate

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