ISOZAKI Arata : SOLARIS (Intercommunication Center)

(Translated by Google Translate)

Exhibition to introduce in the Opera City in Tokyo, Shinjuku, was held in NTT Inter Communication Center, the performance of Arata Isozaki.

The city Solaris, that in considering the future of the city, Isozaki, is in reference to "SOLARIS", it is derived from.

Arata Isozaki is also the designer of Opera City has become a venue. Exhibition Opening of NTT Inter Communication Center also was content with the theme of Arata Isozaki.

Immediately to the left you enter the venue, there was a model of the big city. This office building design draft of Dragon Lake district deputy CBD in China are currently in progress. Building unique are arranged around, around the sea of water.

In that plan, time and calendar based on the traditional "twenty-four Secchi" is incorporated into the design.

On the wall in the immediate vicinity of the model, Arata Isozaki dealt, file photo of projects around China, such as the blueprint was on display.

I surprised that planning many projects in China, Arata Isozaki, had been conducted.

Along the side wall of the right half of the venue, the remaining exhibition, the works and past projects by Isozaki.

Installation has been produced in response to the stimulus action painting of Jackson Pollock, and chance operations of John Cage.

Was achieved by infrastructure various festivals square of Osaka Expo. It was a groundbreaking effort by reading the sensor and the large number of people in the audience, and reaction, environmental equipment and lighting that reacts interactively.

Isozaki envisages based on experience in the Expo, which is controlled by a computer, a city that is supported by the control system, the "invisible city".

Competition proposal of New Urban Tokyo City Hall, project plan of the sea City = Mirage City is built in Macau off the coast. Etc.

A project that was conducted in 1994 to 1996, this sea Mirage City = City, became the theme of the opening exhibition of NTT Inter Communication Center.

Document or photo in the center, the exhibition itself is not showy. However, was overwhelmed by the size of the active region of the architect Arata Isozaki called, it was the exhibition of impressive content.