Fukutake Hall

Posted by Alfredo J. Martiz J. (Panama City, Panama) on 1 April 2009 in Architecture.

Photo of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Fukutake Hall, designed by the architect Tadao Ando and located in the Hongō Campus of the University of Tokyo.
This facility with a 200-person capacity hall was built on the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the university and was completed in 2008. The building was half buried in the ground out of respect for the historic environment of the campus and to retain the trees standing on the site. The result is a low-profile building in which half the building is composed of a stepped plaza that leads to the basement levels. The "thinking wall" created along a campus road is especially impressive.
Reference: Gallery MA

University of Tokyo, Hongō Campus. March 26th, 2009

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