Dynamic Equilibrium

Contemporary architecture separates mankind from nature based on the Modernist philosophy of the 20th century. The interior space is occupied with artificial environments to maintain its stability. However, we have been trying to create architecture to recover our relationship with nature that is lost to contemporary architecture. Our projects such as the Sendai Mediatheque, Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos, and the National Taichung Theater are examples of such an endeavor. The fundamental idea of our projects is based on the notion of “dynamic equilibrium,” put forth by a Japanese biologist Shinichi Fukuoka, which demonstrates that our bodies are not static, but maintains a kind of equilibrium state by adapting day to day. Our installation illustrates our understanding of this dynamic equilibrium.