ISSUE :

Postmodernism emerged in the recent past to

denounce the poverty of modernism at a time when
that movement was deteriorating, becoming
conventionalized, and had abandoned its self-ordained
role as a revitalizing cultural force.

Towards a New Horizon in
Architecture
- Tadao Ando

Ways :
Transparent Logic
The logic is transparent to ANDO, an act of thinking required to develop a project. It is
not a simple logic that meets the functionality of a program, it is a logic that looks at and
the whole context of a project.

Abstraction
to link human activities to abstract geometric shapes

Nature
Nature brings theoretical and ideological architecture a reality that awakens the man to
life. Life does not try to control nature, but rather to draw in order to enter into
communion with it

Place
Tadao Ando aims to create a landscape playing with the character of the place for.
The most promising path open to contemporary architecture is that
of a development through and beyond modernism.
This means replacing the mechanical, lethargic, and mediocre
methods to which modernism.

Precedent study
JKC2 House in Bukit Timah, Singapore
Three distinct wings, connected through their
similar visual identity
showcases an imposing and a contemporary
dynamic architecture
A balance is struck between the man-made
spaces and the natural ones
building formed from basic elemental shapes
with raw-finished materials, such as fair-faced
concrete, stone, mild steel, tropical wood and
clear glass
reflects a sense of warmth and immediacy with
nature