Sunday, April 22, 2012

CAVE DWELLING COMPOUND, ARCHITECTURE AND ART

The Cave Dwelling Compound, a unique and charming type of human habitation, the living fossil of cave living culture, is more and more recognized by people all over the world.

The chief judge of this competition Riken Yamamoto designed Saitama Prefectural University in 1999. In this scheme, he tries to erect the plan to a vertical plane. Riken said his was inspired by the cave dwelling conpound on the Loess Plateau in China. As a result, the architecture becomes the landscape as if the foundation of a city appears as architecture.

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