Steel built into brick walls, with steel-framed floors: a way to make brick work in earthquake-prone Japan.
Article — 15 minThe steel inside the red brick: steel-framed brick construction→Japanese timber construction: joints that lock wood to wood without nails, and how building in timber is spreading again.
Article — 14 minJoining wood, building in wood: Japanese timber today→A residential style that borrows from the tea house: no nageshi rail, half-rounded posts and earthen walls for an easy lightness.
Article — 14 minArchitecture that loosens formality: how to read sukiya→A finish of slaked lime with fibre and seaweed glue that hardens slowly by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air.
Article — 17 minWhite that comes from stone, and returns to it: lime plaster and decorative ceilings→Concrete, strong in compression, combined with steel bars, strong in tension. Exposed concrete shows the marks of its formwork.
Article — 14 minA division of labour between push and pull: reinforced and exposed concrete→A structure that places an isolation layer, such as laminated rubber bearings, between building and ground so that shaking reaches the building less.
Article — 15 minSeparating the building from the ground: how seismic isolation works→Strengthening an old building for today’s earthquake standards without changing how it looks.
Article — 16 minStronger, without changing a thing: how seismic retrofitting works→How Japan’s 31 m height limit gave way to flexible-structure skyscrapers, and what that means for hotels.
Article — 15 minBeyond the 31-metre line: skyscrapers and hotels→型枠を外したままの肌を、そのまま仕上げにしたコンクリート。型枠の継ぎ目とPコン穴が表情をつくる。
Article coming soon栃木県宇都宮市大谷町で採れる軽石凝灰岩。やわらかく加工しやすく、「ミソ」と呼ばれる茶色の斑点が特徴。
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Article coming soon香りがよく、水と腐れに強い国産材。社寺や浴室、上質な和室の柱や板に使われる。
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Article coming soon成長が早く、しなやかな植物材。垣根や天井、床の間の落掛けなど、数寄屋の細部に使われる。
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Article coming soon屋根や外壁に使う銅の板。雨風にさらされて、青緑色の緑青に変わっていく。
Article coming soon表面の錆が保護膜になり、内部の腐食を抑える鋼材。茶褐色の錆色が、年月とともに深まる。
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Article coming soon消石灰に糊や繊維を混ぜた塗り壁材。空気中の炭酸ガスで固まり、白くなめらかに仕上がる。
Article coming soon竹小舞の下地に土を塗り重ねた壁。聚楽土など、土の色と質感をそのまま仕上げに見せる。
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Article coming soon粘土を焼いてつくる積み材。明治の洋館や駅舎を支えた、近代建築を代表する素材。
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Article coming soon粘土を焼いた屋根材。丸瓦と平瓦を組む本瓦葺きと、一枚で波形をつくる桟瓦がある。
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