SANAA

Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates

SANAA

is a multiple award-winning architectural firm based

inTokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1995 by two Japanese
architectsKazuyo SejimaandRyue Nishizawa.
In 2010, Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded
thePritzker Prize.
Examples of their work include the:
Toledo Museum of Art's
Glass Pavilion in Toledo,
Ohio; the New Museum
of Contemporary Art in
New York, NY
The Rolex Learning Center
at EPFL in Lausanne
The Serpentine Pavilion
in London
The Christian Dior Building
in Omotesando in Tokyo
The 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art in Kanazawa
TheLouvre-LensMuseum
in France.

 Multimedia Studio - 1995 to

1996
Gifu, Japan
N Museum - 1995 to 1997
Wakayama, Japan
O Museum - 1995 to 1999
Nagano, Japan
S House - 1995 to 1996
Okayama, Japan
M House - 1996 to 1997
Tokyo, Japan

Projects

K Office Building - 1996 to 1997

-Ibaraki, Japan

Koga Park Caf - 1997

to 1998 - Ibaraki, Japan
Welfare Center - 1997
-Kanagawa, Japan
The Museum of
Contemporary Art (Not
Built/Project Only) 1997 to 1999
-Sydney,Australia
The New Campus
Center of theIllinois
Institute of
Technology(Not
Built/Project Only) 1998 -Chicago,Illinois

 De Kunstlinie Theater & Cultural Center - 1998 to 2006 -Almere,Netherlands

Proposal for Reclaiming Salerno's Inner City - 1999 to Present -Italy
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art- 1999 to 2004 -Kanazawa,Ishikawa, Japan
Lumiere Park Caf - 1999 to Present - Almere, Netherlands
PradaBeauty Store - 2000 -Arezzo, Italy
Installation for the Japan Pavilion at theVenice Biennale- 2000 -Venice, Italy
DiorOmotesando Store - 2001 to 2003 - Tokyo, Japan

The Glass Pavilion at theToledo Museum of Art- 2001 to 2006 -Toledo,Ohio

The NewMercedes BenzMuseum (Not Built/Project Only) - 2002 -Stuttgart,Germany
Extension to the Rietberg Museum (Not Built/Project Only) - 2002 -Zurich,Switzerland
Issey Miyake Store by Naoki Takizawa - 2003 -Tokyo, Japan
Zollverein School of Design - 2003 to 2006 -Essen, Germany
NaoshimaFerry Terminal - 2003 to 2006 -Kagawa, Japan

 The New Museum of Contemporary Art- 2003 to 2007 -New York City
Novartis Office Building - 2003 to Present -Basel, Switzerland
House for the CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) 2004 to Present -Nanjing,China
Serpentine GalleryPavilion - 2009 -London,England
Rolex Learning Centerat the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne - 2004 to
2010 -Lausanne, Switzerland
LeLouvre-Lens- 2005 to 2012 -Lens, Pas-de-Calais,France

WORKS

The Rolex Learning Center,

Ecole Polytechnique
Federale Lausanne,
Switzerland (EPFL)
The campus hub and library for thecole polytechnique
fdrale de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
It opened on February 22nd, 2010The main library,
containing 500,000 printed works, is one of the largest
scientific collections in Europe; four large study areas
can accommodate 860 students with office space for
over 100 EPFL and other employees; a state-of-the-art
multimedia library will give access to 10,000 online
journals and 17,000 e-books, with advanced lending
machines and systems for bibliographic search

The Rolex
Learning
Center, Ecole
Polytechnique
Federale
Lausanne

New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New
York City
Founded in 1977 byMarcia Tucker.
It is the only museum worldwide that is exclusively
devoted to presentingcontemporary artfrom around
the world. The museum originally opened in a space in
the Graduate Centre of the then-namedNew School for
Social Researchat 65 Fifth AvenueThe New Museum
remained there until 1983, when it rented and moved to
the first two and a half floors of the Astor Building at
583 Broadway in theSoHoneighborhood.

New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New
York City

Zollverein School of
Management and Design
Architects:Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue
Nishizawa/SANAA
Client:Zollverein School
Location:Essen,Germany
Construction start:March 2005
Completed:July 2006

The Building is a 35m

cube

Exceptional ceiling
heights were appropriate for
the educational spaces
Undivided floor for flexible
space

The Kunstlinie Almere Arts

Centre
Architects:Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue
Nishizawa/SANAA
Client:Municipality of Almere
Location: Almere, Netherlands
Completed:2007

The design consists of three blocks of buildingsthe arts centre, theatre and stage tower

It is located along Weerwater Lake

Toledo Museum of Art

Glass Pavilion - Toledo,
Ohio
An art museum which encases
glass artworks and glassmaking studios. It was
designed by SANAA in the
year 2000 and opened in the
year 2006.
The Art Glass Pavilion's
exterior and interior walls are
made of glass except for walls
encasing its utilities such as
the comfort rooms, elevators,
drains, pipes and braces. Its
metal mesh facade gives the
building a more solid look
from the outside.

Structural Review

It uses steel columns and solid plate

interior steel wall that encases the
lateral bracings in which the light
roof rests so that the glass walls bear
no load, allowing the roof to appear
like its floating.

Each room has curved glass walls,

allowing optimum views of adjacent
spaces, these kind of architectural
detail could be compared to a typical
Japanese house in which can be
opened completely from the center,
allowing full view of the inside.

Its glass walls are always doubled and

have a spacing of almost 1 meter in
between depending on the curve of
the wall.

Each glass wall panel weighs

1,300 to 1,500 pounds and
approximately 8 feet(2.44m.)
wide by 13.5 feet(4.11m.) high.
The Glass Pavilion contains more
than 360 of these.
The Glass Pavilion has an area of
6,875 sq. m. with its main
ground floor and a basement.

DESIGN REVIEW
The complex has no architectural ornament and its overall design is
Elegant but Simple.
Its essential features contains an squarish, assymetrical plan with
curved edges and rounded corners, capped with a flat roof.
It represents clean lines and pure forms.

21st Century
Museum of
Contemporary Art
The New Museum of
Contemporary Art is located in
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. It
was designed by SANAA in
2004 and was opened in
October 9, 2004.
Site area:
26,000 m2
Building area:
9,500 m2
Total Floor area:
17,300 m2

A walk inside along the curved glass of the exterior facade

smoothly unfolds a 360 degrees panorama of the site..

Four fully glazed internal courtyards, each unique in its

character

The scattered location

of the galleries provide
transparency with views
from the periphery into
the center and vistas
through the entire
depth of the building.
The transparent
corridors encourage
"coexistence" in which
individuals remain
autonomous while
sharing personal space
with others.

Gallery spaces are of

various proportions and
light conditions - from
bright daylight through
glass ceilings, with a
black-out possibility, to
spaces with no natural
light source. Their
height range from 4
meters to 12 meters.

The intention behind all

of these elements is to
stimulate the visitor's
emerging awareness.

For a rest there is a row of

SANAA "Rabbit" chairs inside,
and a circle of SANAA "Drop"
chairs outside.

The Museum is located in the center of Kanazawa, nearKenroku-en

garden and theIshikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. The building has a
circular form, with a diameter of 112.5 metres. This shape aims to keep
the appearance of the overall building volume low, to mitigate the scale
of the project and allows access from multiple points of entry. The
transparency of the building further manifests the wish to avoid the
museum being perceived as a large, introverted mass.

The museum encases exhibits

about experiment type
contemporary arts that visitors
could touch. Most of its arts are
integrated in the building structure
such as visitors could feel as if they
stand at the bottom of the
swimming pool, walls with an open
ceiling and wall colored flowers.

SANAA: The River

Building
The River building on a small portion
of the 75-acre woodlands and
wetlands ofGrace Farms in New
Canaan, Connecticut.
the project will include a church that
will hold services on sundays, a
library, dining room, childrens
spaces, a gymnasium and a generalpurpose meeting area. off-site
parking adds to the non-intrusive
sensitive relationship to the
surrounding nature, and in fact
actually preserves the quite peaceful
character of the site better than if it
were subdivided into ten separate
lots as was decreed prior to the new
design.

The public space will

snake through about an
acre of land as a winding
concrete, steel, wood
and glass structure
creating pockets of
spaces where visitors
can gather or admire the
landscape. its glass
facade sits under a solid
roof canopy like a river
flowing naturally through
the hills sitting 10 feet
above the ground,
creating a space that is
inherently immersed in
the site.

In its transparency, fluidity and expression

of the Grace Farms mission, the design of
the River exemplifies qualities identified by
Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator of the
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo: The
SANAA architectural experience encourages
the emergence of various relationships by
loosely connecting the public and the
private, the group and the individual, and
the external and the internal.

David
Delos
Reyes
Sablan
Sibug
Ramos