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Rokko Housing — Tadao Ando
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Plane cut into silence.
OBS-ARCH-015
Systems of Clarity
Atlas Index:
OBS-ARCH-015
Origin:
Kobe
Era:
1981
Themes / Lineage:
repetition; proportion; boundary
Field Notes:
cut; repetition; concrete
Quiet Modernism appears here as planar interruption held in restraint.

Plane cut into silence.

Rokko Housing — Tadao Ando

A cut interrupts continuity.

Surface quiets.

Form withdraws.

What interrupts?
A plane is often expected to remain continuous, yet a cut arrests movement. Continuity gives way without drama. What continues is surface quieted through interruption.

A plane is often expected to remain continuous, yet a cut arrests movement.

Continuity gives way without drama.

What continues is surface quieted through interruption.

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