Toyama City Glass Art Museum (TOYAMA キラリ) officially opened in August this year. Through Kengo Kuma’s meticulous design and official planning, it combines the needs of the citizens’ library, life and leisure, lectures, and viewing glass art. The building has become a diversified and tourist-use site, where you can thoroughly feel the essence, beauty, reality, and gathering of the Toyama City Glass Art Museum.
◎ How do I get to the Toyama Glass Art Museum (TOYAMA キラリ)?
◎ History Classroom-About the architect Kengo Kuma.
Kengo Kuma was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1954. He graduated from the Institute of Architecture at the University of Tokyo in 1979 with a master's degree in architecture. In 1990, Kengo Kuma founded Kengo Kuma Architects in Aoyama, Tokyo.But he also faced the 10 years of Japan’s economic bubble. He said: "The bubble economy collapsed in the XNUMXs. We call it the decade of Japan’s disappearance. There is almost no case to do. I can only accept invitations from friends and go to remote areas. If you go to the countryside, you can do even the smallest case. Ha, on the contrary, you can travel to many places and be happy!". [Text quoted from Common Wealth Magazine"Kengo Kuma: Architectural concessions show the beauty of heaven and earth"One Article]
When I saw this paragraph, I only had one feeling...very powerful!Can establish an office within 11 years!However, such a powerful architect submerged into the countryside with a soft body under the decline of the general environment. Perhaps this experience and experience. He not only used a lot of natural building materials such as bamboo, wood, mud brick, slate, and paper, but also persisted. The concept based on local materials advocates the integration of the building into the environment and the improvement of the accessibility of the building. It is called "weak building" or "Kuma Kumaru" by the outside world.
▲ List of fares.
▲ The profile I love very much, and the design of the official website is very beautiful!
▲ This art gallery has meticulously designed various fonts, such as the toilet sign in the photo.
◎ Toyama City Glass Art Museum (TOYAMA キラリ) uses ground materials to create a space environment that gathers citizens' needs.
This was originally the site of a department store in Toyama City. The team wanted to create a good place for citizens to relax and give this space functional elements and commercial value. Therefore, libraries, reading rooms, exhibition rooms, lecture halls, and banks gathered together to bring citizens together. The planning of static activities needs to be in place once, and the team of architect Kengo Kuma is invited to carry out the work, and the fortifications are introduced into this architectural space.
Toyama City itself is a city with related technologies of glass art and manufacturing process. If you want to analogize with some concepts similar to Taiwan’s Yingge Ceramic Town, we can extend Kengo Kuma’s architectural focus on using local materials. Incorporating into the environment, it is constructed using glass and wood from Toyama City. It also takes Tateyama as the design inspiration, and uses the spiral avenue as the internal main body. It is intended to invite people from outside to walk in and eventually reach the top. [Released on Kengo Kuma's official websiteconcept of design】
▲ This restaurant is a cafe brand of "No Muroya" in Kanazawa and is worth visiting.
▲ Accompanied by the staff in the museum, I was able to take such a wealth of photos to share with everyone.
▲ There are also many children's books in the museum.
◎ Toyama City Glass Art Museum (TOYAMA キラリ) is not only an exhibition venue, but also promotes the art of glass.
This museum makes me very shocked when I shuttle in the moment. A public environment created by the government can be so comfortable and pleasant, and the static activities of the city can satisfy the enjoyment. I really envy the citizens of Toyama to have such a venue, and I hope that Taiwan can have the same level. Space appears.Turning to check the official website, but also unexpectedly found that one of the words of the museum curator is also worthy of our deep consideration (excerpts of the textual meaning).
"The cultivation of glass art talents and the industrialization of glass are one of the driving directions of the museum for the development of the community. I hope to help guide students to make them aspiring to become glass artists, and I want to convey that glass art is the biggest attraction for tourists when visiting Toyama. Power. If the museum is viewed from the location, the museum has already collected many potential glamorous works, as well as foreign contemporary glass art works, to go to the world with the audience."
Therefore, when you come to the art gallery, I would suggest to keep a little more time to watch the collections here slowly, which is absolutely beyond your imagination.
▲ After getting the shot, take a picture for everyone to look at the glass art work.
▲ The space planning is very diverse, which really meets everyone's needs for use.
▲ The glass exhibition on the 6th floor requires an additional fee for admission.
▲▼ The works currently on display are the works of modern glass master Dale Chihuly.
▲ Little ingenuity at the door.
◎ Toyama City Glass Art Museum (TOYAMA キラリ)
– Address: 〒930−0062 5, 1 Nishimachi, Toyama City
– Tel: 076-461-3100
– Fax: 076-461-3310
– Opening hours:http://toyama-glass-art-museum.jp/visitor/
-Official website:http://toyama-glass-art-museum.jp/
