A Living Whole

When creating an architecture,
how can we consider a Living Whole that includes the architecture itself?

Life as a Whole
Creating architecture is the act of living itself. We engage with people to, think about, create, and nurture architecture that is appropriate for the place. We see architecture as a whole, which includes such activities.

Space as a Whole
When creating architecture, a world is born inside it. On the other hand, architecture exists as a part of the world outside of it. If architecture can link between the inner and outer worlds, one can see it as a continuum from a small place to a large environment. Creating architecture involves traversing scales and generating a continuum of relationships one cannot extract individually. 

Time as a Whole
Architecture exists not only as what is in front of us at present but with the architecture of the past and the future. Therefore, a single architecture contains people's lives from the past to the future. Also, each building material encapsulates the long time it took to grow as part of the land. How can we create architecture today that connects to the people of the past, present, future, and the time of the land? 

Irreplaceability of Existence　
In thinking about a Living Whole that includes architecture, we would like to start by considering architecture as a living creature rather than an artificial object detached from nature. Looking at architecture as an independent existence, not something to be controlled by humans, allows us to go beyond evaluating it based on functionality and performance, and to love and nurture it, including its flaws and incompleteness. This viewpoint of seeing architecture as a living creature is an attempt to reexamine the ontological significance of architecture. 

When creating an architecture, how can we consider a Living Whole that includes the architecture itself? We will continue to consider this question with many people.