Architects:Riken Yamamoto

Area:10465m²

Year:2022

Photographs:Shinkenchiku Sha,Shigeru Ohno

Constructors:Obayashi Corporation

Structural Engineer / Civil Engineer:Arup

City:Nagoya

Country:Japan

Text description provided by the architects. In 2022 Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design will move from its current campus in Komaki to the city of Nagoya. The new campus is located next to Meijo Park, the home of Nagoya Castle Meijo Koen Station is right below the grounds.

The building spans the station, which bisects the grounds into east and west. In other words, the building itself is a bridge. The place that corresponds to the bridge girder is a large open space that is 88m by 88m on the top floor. Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design is an arts school.

The campus move presented an opportunity to consolidate and reorganize the nine courses of study at the university into five fields. Courses such as Japanese-style painting, Western-style painting, sculpture, interior design, manga, illustration, CG, etc. will no longer be divided by skill, medium, application, or product availability. Instead, they have been reorganized according to their original purpose by considering first of all what the purpose of the art production activity or design activity is and who it is for. Research courses have been reorganized into the following five fields: Art Expression, Visual Literature, Community Area Design, Community Sense Design, Representation Design.

The center of activity of activity for these five fields is the 88 meter by 88meter large studio. It can be used like a shared office, providing opportunities for students from the different areas of study to interact with each other.

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Address:1 Chome Meijo, Kita Ward, Nagoya, Aichi 462-0846, Japan