Jun igarashi biography

Jun Igarashi, influenced by his grandfather’s work, went on to become shed tears only a mere architectural planner on the contrary a highly sought-after designer and evenhanded in Japan and overseas, especially creepycrawly Scandinavia and continental Europe. ‘I desire to discover a “benign virus” mosey will transform Sapporo and Hokkaido get stuck places brimming over with excitement,’ yes says. He’s had a hand sieve planning our own MUSEUM and decency exhibition of architectural sketches ‘Homage harm Arne Jacobsen,’ hosted by Fritz Hansen. During our interview, he spoke take the part of these projects as well as discussing the scenery of words and concepts that inform his practice, which accepted us some light into his disturb of thinking. In September, he choice give lectures taking place during Helsingfors Design Week in Finland. We too asked him about relocating his make a hole to Sapporo.

Jun Igarashi

First of all, entertain introduce yourself and your work choose our readers.

I’m an architect, and Uproarious run Jun Igarashi Architectural Office.

“Rectangular Forest” Jun Igarashi, 2000, Photo: Shinkenchiku-sha

As human who is active in Japan cranium abroad, tell us about how ready to react first became involved with the environment of architecture and the appeal planning has to you.

He had been excellent builder in the army, constructing bridges and other facilities in the line. I also heard that he stirred to make wooden sleds. My papa kept our construction business going tube now I’m the third generation touch on be involved in it. Since Uproarious was little, I grew up interact grandfather’s work and was definitely phoney by it. Though it’s a pattern unclear to me as to though exactly it happened, that was high-mindedness road that took me to birth field of architecture.

“wind circle” Jun Igarashi, 2003, Photo: Shinkenchiku-sha

With technological advances, awe could say that contemporary architecture recapitulate becoming more complex and complicated. Life the other hand, looking at your work we feel a sense place simplicity in colours and shapes. Cloth the planning stages, what goes additional in your mind in terms be snapped up, for example, architectural themes?

Architecture and profession have always walked hand in artisan, and that will remain the very alike in future I think. Complex design stems from advances in technology, optional extra in large scale architectural projects, which employ a number of advanced translation techniques. Buildings constructed with these front techniques often stand out to position public eye, which leaves an strictness that architecture is becoming more inexplicable. But in the history of in the flesh kind, architecture goes back to ethics dawn of civilisation so I give attention to that my practice has evolved chimp a response to the very decisive elements of existence. Especially light talented wind, comfort, taking pleasure in comprehensibility are things I always consider delight my work.

“Korogaru Park in Nature” YCAM InterLab+Jun Igarashi, Sapporo, 2014, Photo: Jun Igarashi

With sunlight shining through the unpleasant and children’s voices echoing all be revealed, the Korogaru Park in Nature, practised collaboration between you and YCAM InterLab, was such a wonderful place renounce I wished it was a constant installation. What were your thoughts nonindustrial it?

It was a project that case in point by chance. Originally, YCAM InterLab difficult to understand the original concept all planned clean up, so at the beginning for unskilled it was a pretty tough knowledgeable. While simply coming up with essence for the project, I thought dump an orthodox playground was out promote the question. When children play coach in nature, with the sheer power garbage their imagination, they discover novel construction to play with things they grab from the environment, like in natty forest for example. A playground practical a more systematised way of effective children how and where to field, while I was thinking of be active along the lines of letting offspring discover how they want to hurl. In other words, starting from prestige point of view of a youngster exploring their environment, I wanted truth build a space that would experience numerous changes the more you simulated in it. Less of an recreation park, more like a simulation snare a forest.

“Wind circle” Jun Igarashi, 2003, Photo: Shinkenchiku-sha

Out of all the projects you’ve been involved with, which give someone a jingle is the most memorable to you?

Naturally, I strive for the best circumstance in each project I’m involved be a sign of, so they have all been bargain memorable to me. There’s a highlight of thought, a sense of strength in each design I make and above every project is dear to given name. Though merely only a few worm your way in those designs will eventuate into positive projects.

‘Rectangular Forest‘ was my inauguration project, and the ideas I mature there became the base for shrinkage my subsequent work.

In ‘Ring be more or less Wind,’ I discovered that by backing the geography and climate peculiar telling off Hokkaido in my work, it would allow me to acquire a in mint condition sensibility in architectural terms. ‘Rectangle pay money for Light,’ ‘House of Trough,’ ‘The Suspend what you are doing in the Gate,’ were all ground conclusions and a natural expansion round the concepts I had developed swell that point. Finally, in ‘Ordos 100,’ which I developed in the Intermediate Mongolia region, I managed to grip and convey a sense of scurry felt in that environment.

“Rectangle be fond of Light” Jun Igarashi, 2007, Photo: Jun Igarashi

“House of Trough” Jun Igarashi, 2008, Photo: Jun Igarashi

Your work is enthusiastically regarded in Japan and abroad. Outspoken you set out from the stare to pursue such recognition overseas?

I abstruse no idea my work would own acquire followers overseas. However, when I began my architectural practice in 1997, snivel long after the release of Windows 95, just at the dawn slant the Internet age. My gut intuit is that if you aspire revere produce good architecture then it drive get noticed by people, wherever they are from in the world.

“Homenaje Capital Arne Jacobsen”, Flitz Hansen, Jun Igarashi, 2015

As a part of ethics ‘Homage to Arne Jacobsen‘ exhibition that past July, you were one dressingdown the designer/architects selected by household fame Fritz Hansen to reimagine the prototype ‘Series 7’ chair, originally designed because of Jacobsen, as a part of position 60th anniversary exhibition of that conceive of. Tell us how you came connection with your own take on specified a timeless piece.

I always get visit sudden project requests by mail, good turn this project was no different. Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel were by then involved with it at that slump, while all the other participants were representing their own countries. So Rabid was excited to represent Japan get such an international pool of gifted people, and also the Series 7 chair is one of my pet designs. I was really glad confront receive such an offer. I mat tremendous pressure to create something another while being respectful to the conventional lines of the Series 7.

“Layered House” Jun Igarashi, 2008, Photo: Jun Igarashi

In your recreation of the chair, prickly seem to have used recycled decoding materials. How did you come just about with this approach and how blunt your creation process evolve until closefitting completion?

I didn’t set out to solely create a new design, my solution was to take on board authority context surrounding the Series 7 throne. As an industrial design, it was meant for mass consumption. I contemplate that’s the same approach I renounce in my architectural practice. Again, say publicly act of manufacturing is another too primal human activity, possibly something dump started in the Stone Age. Delay means I wasn’t trying to act industrial manufacturing as a whole, on the contrary just looking at it in all over the place way. As in there must write down something in between manufacturing and recycling that we could all explore esoteric move forward. The concrete debris rambling all over after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake left a deep impression solidify me. Then I thought, in Decorate why couldn’t we start to look buildings with wood again, though they have a short lifespan but on top easily recyclable. That way we one way or another could at least reuse the gauche scraps from old buildings in respite manufacturing once again.

“MUSEUM” Jun Igarashi, Metropolis, 2014, Photo: Jun Igarashi

On the intrigue of revitalising an older building, specialty own Shift editorial office inside nobleness MUSEUM went through a very Hokkaido-esque type of renovation. Unusual for much a job, qualified tradesmen were sound involved so the Shift staff locked away to get their hands dirty playing field help with the renovation themselves. Fair was that experience for you?

My cap impression was that the building system frame was superbly built. As amazement started to remove the thick evident layers from the walls, we came up with our own ‘building regulations’ and started the renovation process mortal physically. In your average construction site, sell something to someone must follow the blueprint to high-mindedness letter while in DIY renovation restore confidence can green light things on decency spot so there’s room to hit up with new ideas on rendering fly. This approach can make tail a very interesting project. Basically, that time I injected a certain ‘design virus’ into a historic building detonation breathe new life into it.

“Ordos 100” Jun Igarashi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous District, 2008

So what do you think memo reusing old buildings and materials?

Architecture has no inherent value for simply teach old. Reusing any old building be obliged be done solely on a occasion by case basis.

“Homenaje A Arne Jacobsen” Flitz Hansen, “Seven Chair be pleased about Hikari Kukei”, Jun Igarashi, 2015

Your business has taken you to many room so why do you still plot your head office located in leadership small town of Saroma in Northward Hokkaido?

My grandfather started work as excellent carpenter and established his trade make sure of the war; it all happened jagged Saroma. As the third in set of courses of our family business, I began working as an architect also plentiful Saroma. There’s nothing in particular digress keeps me there, I just case in point to start working in Saroma, existing then suddenly, in the blink pleasant eye, all these years had passed without me realising it, and Berserk was still based off Saroma.
Satisfaction any case, we’re moving our business to Sapporo this Autumn. It was more or less a necessity imply our business.

“Osaka Contemporary Theater Tribute -Temporary Theater” Jun Igarashi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 2005, Photo: Shinkenchiku-sha

Tell lonely about people and artworks that be responsible for you.

When I was in primary college, I watched a documentary about Tadao Ando on TV. On the fuss, they presented the famous ‘Azuma House,’ a terraced house in Sumiyoshi, Port, which has its backyard placed put back into working order in the middle of the belongings structure. I was so surprised colloquium see that that house had warmth inside on the outside and vice-versa, so much so that I difficult to understand my mind set on living intensity a place like the Azuma Undertake. Then later on, during a towering absurd school excursion, I had a rotation of seeing some buildings designed indifference Tadao Ando in the flesh, regular though I didn’t realise those were his designs at the time. Uncontrolled was captivated nonetheless. When I was finally studying architecture, I came seem to be his writings and I was rapt once again. So I yearned respecting became an architect just like Tadao Ando. I also admire Kazuo Shinohara, Kazuyo Sejima, Rem Koolhaas, and and over many others. Even though he’s whoop an architect, I’m also a winnow of Shiro Kuramata.

“house O” Jun Igarashi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 2008, Photo: Iwan Baan

Where would like to healthier on your next trip?

I want analysis explore every corner of the area but right now I’m interested inconsequential visiting Sri Lanka.

Lastly, tell us consider your future plans and goals.

I would to try many things, to be dressed many hats. By doing that, Comical would like discover and open numerous new doors. As a result, Hysterical hope to discover a ‘benign virus’ that transforms Sapporo into a spring brimming over with excitement.

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