A carpet resembling a rainbow. Rainbow Carpet by Junya Ishigami
23/02/2022.
[Nakhon Ratchasima] Thailand
metalocus, CARLOS GONZÁLEZ
metalocus, CARLOS GONZÁLEZ
Project description by Junya Ishigami
“A carpet resembling a rainbow.
Forming an arc like a rainbow, spread thinly over a large area like a carpet.
A rainbow carpet will be installed by the canal in front of the Art Gallery.
A vast carpet 77m wide and 30m deep, with an area of 2310m², that will billow up from the ground to a height of five meters, as if floating above the water.
The rainbow carpet will be made by sewing bricks together with wire. Holes will be made in the bricks, and steel wire of 1cm diameter passed through them, fastening the huge number of bricks together, and reinforcing the arched brick construction. Thus a very thin brick membrane will float lightly as if wafting on the breeze.
A carpet resembling a rainbow.
Large holes made in this large membrane will offer views of the sparkling water below.
On this rainbow carpet floating up from the streets, people will distance themselves from the bustle of the city, and relax for a while.
Beneath the rainbow carpet covering the canal, people will take refuge from the intense sunlight, and gazing upon the sky from the canal bank, enjoy the light streaming down, and spend a quiet afternoon in the comfortable embrace of the shade.
The rainbow carpet will be a new public open space for Nakhon Ratchasima.
The rainbow carpet will be a new landscape for Nakhon Ratchasima.
The rainbow carpet will be a thin, light brick membrane.
The rainbow carpet will journey alongside Nakhon Ratchasima through history.
The rainbow carpet will be a fossil of a rainbow.
Junya Ishigami, born in Tokyo, Japan (1974). Education:
1994 - 1998 Musashi Institute of Technology.
1998 - 2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Professional experience:
2000 - 2004 Kazuyo Sejima + Associates.
In 2004 he set up his own firm, "Junya Ishigami + Associates". Junya Ishigami questions common understanding of architecture. This allows him to create things beyond trends, established principles and definitions, develop new structures, new spaces and organize the environment differently. He hopes his projects will be able to change the lifestyle of modern architecture radically and fill it with new values.
Main projects: Table. Tokyo, Japan, 2005 T. project. (First prize in residential architecture project sponsored by the Tokyo Electric Power Company). Tokyo, Japan, 2005 Balloon. Tokyo, Japan, 2007 Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT kobo. Kanagawa, Japan, 2008 Yohji Yamamoto New York Gansevoort street store, NY, USA, 2008.
Main awards: “low chair and round table” were acquired by the Pompidou Centre. Milan, Italy, 2004, SD Prize for “small garden of row house”. Japan, 2005, Kirin Prize for “Table” . Tokyo , Japan, 2005, First prize in residential architecture project for “t project”. Tokyo, Japan, 2005, “Table” shown at the Basel Art Fair by Gallery Koyanagi in 2006 and acquired by the Israel Museum. Basel , Swiss, 2006.