쿠마 켄고의 건축구축방법론에서 소멸성에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine architecture from the ecological viewpoint of Kuma Kengo what is influenced by Characteristics of Eastern ideas and the characteristics of Japanese traditional architecture and is to define the circularity what Kuma Kengo calls "Erase Architecture" and research the construction method of extinction on his work. Eastern ideas say the universe as an organism and recognizes that all of them exists in the rife-death cycle. The viewpoint of nature in Eastern ideas emphasizes the ‘extended humanism' in which humans are parts of nature but should consider their role in it. Due to the mild climate and natural disasters, Japan has a natural environment, in which people admire its nature. These attitudes are represented by gardening philosophy and shrine architecture. With this background, traditional Japanese architecture features ‘no-decoration’, ‘light-weighting of Structures’, ‘ambiguous boundaries between internal and external’, and ‘full formation through parts formation’. Due to the influence of Eastern thought and Japanese traditional architecture, Kuma Kengo's architecture shows that humans, architecture, and environment do not exist separately, but are related to each other as a space of organic interaction in-between. He has put his position on extension line of an ecological architecture that previous generations of architects regard architecture as an organism. Although, the previous generation-architects choose to take their position to set architecture as a new environment for humans through infinite growth, he thinks that architecture should also be extinct if architecture is treated as an organism. Kuma Kengo recognizes architecture as a part of the circular structure of the universe from the influence of Oriental thought, and aims to connect humans with the environment. To achieve this goal, Kuma Kengo criticizes the transgressive existence of modern architecture that seems to last forever, and insists that architecture should erase for the ultimate human-environment bond. Tectonics of the extinction in Kuma Kengo are ‘connection with surrounding environment', 'space composition' and 'material representation'. This study focuses on Kuma Kengo's works using these elements as a framework for analysis.