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FT Architects: Light Sheds


Light Sheds by FT Architects Designed for a photographic studio, Light Shed is an example of essential and functional architecture. From the very beginning, FT Architects have followed a clear concept of creating simple and pragmatic shed. Standing in the photographer's garden, it contains of a single room and provides only ample ambient light. Direct sunlight creates overly strong contrasts that would result in unnatural portraits. Owing to architectural solutions, the interior, although closed, is always as bright as the external environment. This duality of being both outside and inside pushes the conventional boundaries of architecture. "Ever since the launch of the practice’s first project (...) application of pragmatic structural solutions has been the core to our approach to all projects. We have also been continually exploring ways to inherit and translate the purity of traditional Japanese timber compositions into modern construction. Here, while the log beams were employed as pragmatic means to fulfil the brief, they also bring along symbolic associations of being one of the oldest building material. In this project, we were able to test the modern significance of this primitive material through using it as a meaningful device to create a man-made enclosure where photographic subjects can be exposed in natural light," the architects say. Words: Thisispaper Images: Shigeo Ogawa   

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