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Renowned architect and Junya Ishigami+Associates founder, Junya Ishigami designed a multipurpose semi-covered plaza for the students of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. Featuring rectangular roof openings, the plaza is unusually designed for the ceiling and ground to bend and meet at a distance, much like the horizon on the landscape.
Situated adjacent to the award-winning KAIT Workshop building, also designed by Ishigami in 2008, the plaza was conceptualised to provide a semi-outdoor breakout space for the students of the institute.
Most of the outdoor spaces on the campus were surrounded by school buildings; landscape diversity that would have otherwise resulted in a constantly changing natural environment was missing, lending a certain artificiality to the surroundings.