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Chiba Prefectural Central Library
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Category: Library
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Architect: Masato OTAKA
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Construction: Toda Corporation
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Year: 1967
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Additional Construction: Chiba Prefecture Cultural Hall・Seikendo;1967, Chiba Prefectural Library;1968
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Location:
Chiba
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On a gentle hill covered in the green foliage of Chiba, stands this groundbreaking library. In pursuit of establishing free, continuous and expansive library spaces, for the first time in Japan, its design adopted the pre-cast and pre-stressed reinforced concrete with the cross-shaped section to constitute the entire structural members. This method of combining both the prefabricated structural system and modular based compositional system at the same time in design validated his creative experimentation. Therefore, through the off-site prefabrication of specific concrete, he sought the full architectonic potential of concrete as an expressive element, and thus, forming a basis for accomplishing the desired architectural design, as it is confirmed in some of his significant later works.
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Current Condition: Seikendo was demolished.
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Additional Selection: Additional selection
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docomomo選定年度:2003
Library
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佐賀県立図書館
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大分県立中央図書館
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日本大学生産工学部図書館
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日野市立中央図書館
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東京経済大学図書館
Chiba
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佐倉市庁舎
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大多喜町役場
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日本大学生産工学部図書館
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検見川無線送信所
1960~1969
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金沢工業大学本館
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佐賀県立博物館
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シトー会西宮の聖母修道院
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広島基町・長寿園高層アパート
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代官山ヒルサイドテラス第1期, および第2期以降, ヒルサイドウエスト