Tower of winds

      Toyo Ito is an Japanese architect known for creating architecture that symbolize the physical or virtual world. ToYo was born in Seoul, and graduated from university of Tokyo. In Toyo's eye, Tokyo is a city that changes in every moment, but the changes can not seen in any architecture. The way to represent changes is though lights on the electrical tower, vending machine and commercial show sign. Architecture express is present during daytime but it lost its reality into the changing lights during night time.
      The purpose of the tower of winds is to symbolize the visual complexity of Tokyo in terms of a never-ceasing, ever-changing wind. The tower is built with cylinder shape facade, yet a square inner structure carefully hiding the ventilation systems for the shopping more and subway under the gro
und. The facade is built with highly reflective glass. It reflect the the changes happening in the city during daytime. Because the surrounding environment are reflected by the glasses, it gives an illusion of the structure disappears into the environment. The tower was built with thousands of lights neon light. These light changes its speed and paten when it lights up. This symbolize the the continuity of the changes in the city at night.







Zhaoyu Hunter Chen