White U Via
anirik_01 This is not strictly speaking a cemetery, but it certainly has a direct relation to the theme of community.
This house was built by Toyo Ito for his older sister in 1976.
When the older sister Toyo Ito has lost her husband (cancer), then asked Ito build her a house,
wherever she and her children could grieve and mourn their loss.
They decided that the house should be built in the shape of "U" - a symbol of unity (exclusive unity).
building "turned inside" inside and the outside world rejects.
U-shaped layout of the house allowed to create a continuous visual contact between family members, which should serve to strengthen ties between them.
corridor illuminated skylight to create a sense of the maze.
All the walls and ceiling of the house were white, the carpet in the living room too white. Due to this light is scattered and created a sense of two-dimensional space, such as screen projecting shadows. Slits in the ceiling create a diagonal play of light and shadows.
Cherez in 1921 after the construction of the family left the house.
first went eldest daughter, who called this house "coffin." All animals, which she trying to make living in this house, it is not willing to stay alone in the courtyard.
Later, her mother went to a small apartment and always remembered how wonderful sound reflected from the walls of the house (musicologist).
last to leave the house the youngest daughter, who believes that the house had developed in her sensitivity and taught to understand beauty (became director of the museum).
http://anirik-01.livejournal.com/489507.html http://www.architime.ru/architects/a_toyo_ito.htm