Miho Museum Kyoto

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Miho Museum Kyoto-IM Pei Architect Kibowkan international

The area that miho museum is located is a wilderness park, that is protected as a landscape resource. It is forbidden to build higher than 13m or have visible roof area more than 2000m2 in this area. Therefore the building has been built more than 80% underground and the original vegetation has been replaced over all the underground construction. The entrance into the museum is a spectacular expression as a gateway, walking through an underground tunnel you are suddenly confronted with a canter levered bridge that is strung from the raw natural hill escarpment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miho_Museum http://www.danheller.com/j-miho-museum.html http://www.miho.or.jp/english/landscap/landscap.htm

simularities to waiheke

• Maitaita is also in a non built up area and having to high building or to much roof area displayed could ruin its vista.
• Maitaita requires a large area of carparking and the council would like quite a large area of retail facilities to be constructed one of the options may be putting them underground then replanting over top.
• There are also oportunities here to make a statement with entrance to the site.

referencecasabella 1998 july v62 n658