This is another inspirational project from R&Sie Architects featured in the 'Urban Witch' article below. Their architecture often appears to have emerged from the landscape, consisting of forms that appear to drift or which mutate and clone elements found nearby.It is an outdoor exhibition space inside a sloped, twisted carpark, that rises and dips and leaves cars under the tarmac exposed.....it's an art piece in itself.
Completed in 2003, Asphalt Spot was part of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 – a cultural festival that saw 157 artists and architects from 23 countries produce 224 artworks in the Shinano Basin of Niigata Prefecture.
It was commissioned by the Art Front Gallery in the nearby town of Tokamashi as an exhibition venue with integrated visitor facilities and 20 parking places. Along with the parking, it has 300m2 of exhibition space and also public facilities.
The underside is punctuated by a forest of leaning concrete columns that hold up the car park above, and along with the ceiling have been covered in canvas sleeves. The building straddles a steep incline between a road and the lower-lying fields, creating a new topography linking the two levels. The undulating surface is even criss-crossed by fences similar to those used to divide fields.
The area is one of Japan's main rice-producing areas and has suffered increasing de-population in the last few years, and this triennal was intended to attract visitors to the region.
http://www.new-territories.com/asphalt%20spot%20realized.htm
Photos courtesy of http://www.dezeen.com
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