Week 8 Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects

This is a plan of Musashino Art University Library by Sou Fujimoto Architects. This feature story is written by Rob Gregory on September 2010. The feature reflected the writer had a unique angle and advanced writing skills.

In the beginning of the story, in order to maintain the readers’ interest throughout the feature, instead of depicting details about the designers---- Sou Fujimoto Architects’ background, Rob compared the designer’s existing masterpieces to this new challenge. Moreover, he also told readers that Fujimoto’s ability to “produce a large-scale institutional building has remained untested, so anyone interested in the scalability of his talents will be particularly keen to scrutinise the plans for the recently completed Musashino Art University Library in Tokyo.” This can better grab the readers’ attention. Readers may get interest of Sou Fujimoto’s new challenge.

In the next paragraph, the writer portrayed Sou Fujimoto’s design, which was Sou Fujimoto “combines conceptual clarity with functional rigour to generate a new form of library planning.”Then Rob presented the process that Fujimoto won the project. The writher used others’ ideas in the beginning to render Piano’s distinctive design. Then Rob stated that it was Fujimoto’s ‘forest of books’ concept that made an impact on the jury” in the end.

After that Rob continued to introduce the details of the Musashino Art University Library. It was “based on a series of independent rectilinear book stacks, dispersed to create a field - or forest - of monolithic blocks”. As the writer described, the building was “vary in size, with some large enough to contain essential services and ancillary spaces, the blocks promoted what the architect described as ‘an instinct to wander’, recalling how in his experience libraries are places where readers are encouraged to ‘get lost’.

Then Rob varied the tone in the next several paragraphs, he pointed out that Sou Fujimoto’s design encountered some difficulties in the in the construction and the team had to reconsider some options. Then Rob portrayed the design details such as “timber predominates” “axial window” as well as “crescent-shaped void” to leave an intuitive impression to readers and make the article more professional and attractive.

Link:http://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/musashino-art-university-library-by-sou-fujimoto-architects-tokyo-japan/8606133.article