Enclosure and infiniteness: reflections on ordering systems regarding the KAIT Workshop of Junya Ishigami

Abstract

This article is an approximation to the work KAIT (Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, 2004-2008) by the Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. From a graphic and written perspective, this investigation analyzes the logics in the conception of this architectural space. A space without references or predetermined paths, understood in its double condition of enclosure and infiniteness, in which perceptual limits are dissolved and a fragment of the universe is edged with barely no thickness. An attempt has also been made to record its paradoxical ordering system, of complex non-linear dynamics and of a certain contradictory appearance. All this has also tried to encourage a contemporary reflection on the architecture generated from digital tools that blurs starting matrix geometries without losing control of its parts in favor of intensifying the ability to establish relationships, making possible, in Ishigamis words, the liberation of built space of geometry and rules, in search of a new universality