SEEN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE # 2
ITALIAN PAVILION - KENGO KUMA & MICHITAKA HIROSE NIWA
WHERE THE PARTICLE RESPONSES
As I'm interested in gardens, I was immediately drawn and amused by this computer operated robot - you can determin it's path - just draw your imaginary with one gentile stroke of the paintbrush on the computer monitor.
" I wanted to create a garden that responds. In reality, both the architecture and the garden respond continuously. As the sun sets and the light gradually changes throughout the day, the architecture changes by a surprising degree. Similarly, when the wind blows, the leaves and the branches will sway in the garden. Despite these changes, people believe that both architecture and the garden are static.
In order to decipher the delusion, the stone garden was devised. The sand is raked to represent the trace of wind, which depicts the garden as being responsive.
For those who still say that the stone garden is yet static, I have decided to create a garden that responds to movement. Since advance technology was required in order to realize this, I collaborated with Prof. Michitaka, the founder of virtual reality. I, hence, intend to challenge peoples' notion of static garden by experimenting with a stone garden in Venice." KENGO KUMA