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International working party for
documentation and conservation
Minimum Documentation Fiche 2003 of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the
modern movement
composed by national/regional working party of:
DOCOMOMO Japan

0.1 Picture of building/site

Lecture room building inside of music hall
depicted item:
source:photo by Kazuto Kasahara
date:2006
db code
1. / Identity of building/group of buildings/urban scheme/landscape/garden
1.1 / current name of building:Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts / 3
1.2 / variant or former name:Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts / 4
1.3 / number & name of street:Nagakute / 5
1.4 / Town:Aichi-gun / 6
1.5 / Province/state:Aichi / 7
1.6 / zip code:480-1194 / 8
1.7 / Country:Japan / 9
1.8 / national grid reference: / 10
1.9 / classification/typology:EDC / 11
1.10 / protection status & date:docomomo japan 10 selections 2006 / 12
2 / History of building
2.1 / original brief/purpose:university (lecture room, music hall) / 13
2.2 / dates: commission/completion:1966-71 / 14
2.3 / Architectural and other designers:Junzo YOSHIMURA and Akio OKUMURA / 15
2.4 / others associated with building:Zenitaka Co., Taisei Co., Yahagi Co. / 16
2.5 / significant alterations with dates: / 17
2.6 / current use:university (lecture room, music hall) / 18
2.7 / current condition:good / 19
3 / Description
3.1 / general description:Taking the lecture room building that extends directly north-south as the central axis, the department of fine arts is to located teh west, the department of music is located to the east, the communal library and student hall are located to the south, while the student dormitories, the teaching staff accommodation, and the athletics facilities are arranged following the contour lines. / 20
3.2 / Construction:reinforced concrete, precast concrete(roof). / 21
3.3 / Context:. This is a university campus designed for an area of hilly ground on the outskirts of Nagoya. In this periods, many universities campus were planned at the surbia area of the big cities. / 22
4 / Evaluation
4.1 / Technical:Extending to a length of 110m, the lecture room building is raised on piloti, and is covered with white-painted pre-cast concrete louvers. The roof structure of the music hall is folded pre-cast concrete panels, placed on structually independent walls. / 23
4.2 / Social: / 24
4.3 / Cultural & Aesthetic: / 25
4.4 / Historical: / 26
4.5 / general assessment:The overall plan is a lucid and relaxed response to the context, based on the concept that the main stage for teh development of life on campus is not in the buildings themselves, but in their “intersitial spaces” / 27
5 / Documentation
5.1 / principal references:Shinkenchiku June, 1971 SD special issue, May 1971 / 28
5.2 / visual material attached: Kazuto Kasahara / 29
5.3 / rapporteur/date:July 2007 / 30
6. Fiche reportexamination by ISC/R
name of examining ISC member:
date of examination:
approval:
Wp/ref. no: NAI ref. no:
comments:

Explanation for selection

This work is the largest project among which Junzo Yoshimura had designed. Each buildings, such as lecture rooms, music hall express the clearness of structure and composition, sophistication of space arangenement, and richness of details. It well represents the development of modern technology in 1960’s Japanese modern movement. The huge site is located at the surburb of Nagoya (third largest city in Japan), which is one of the characteristic for many universities built up in the 1960’s. There are still remaining the original buildings, however, the extentional projects are now progressing by the project committee of the university. (Kazuto Kasahara)

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