Tangling_Akihisa Hirata Lecture at UBC
| November 13th, 2009Tonight I went to UBC LASSER 104 for Akihisa Hirata’s Lecture titled “Tangling”. People may think that his work is just mimicing nature with organic forms, actually there is a strong logic and theory behind it. After the lecture, I totally understand why his design attracts so many attention in the architectural field of Japan and the world.
It is hard for me to document everything on the lecture, but i would like to make a few notes to illustrate some of his ideas.
His lecture started with a image of the sushi,(fish roe on top of rice) and another image of deep ocean fish roe on seaweed. A question on artificial landscape and nature, are they that much different? In fact, there is a lot in common.
What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy.—Erwin Shrödinger
Using Erwin’s theory, he further explained that the difference between 20th century architecture with the 21st century. “Tangling” is more like a thinking tool for him than form-finding alone.
“Tangling creates continuous space without whole view.” Most of his design are serious about visual connection in common space but at the same time not to see the overall image.
Trees are a major reource for inspiration for him. He did analysis on the behavior of trees and forests. Later he also discribed the pleats principle (from nature) in the creation of tangling (as a tool). This is the key feature, i think, for his theory.
It is quite a lecture, I am glad I went and brought his autograph back home.
Images by Yiming Wang.