THAI : MATfukuoka 2010: ุ1st Day of MAT Fukuoka 2010

MAT Fukuoka 2010 is starting now!

We arrived Fukuoka on Wednesday 4th and found that some of the schedule have been changed a little. You can see the architecture list below.

credit: http://www.matfukuoka.com/

There're a lot of people ,come from different universities in Japan to attend to MAT Fukuoka program, divided into 6 groups. (A-F)

Thai students are separated in 3 teams,

Team A : Kullatus, Sasiwimon ---> Nishi Nippon City Bank Headquarter

Team B : Parote, Tantap ----> Canal city and Fukuoka Bank Headquarter

Team E : Ploy, Praparvin and Nattaporn -----> Ohori Park Noh Theater

Our work is explain the imformation in English to foreigner visitors.

Today, the first group is Team A. Kullatus and me (Sasiwimon) are guide of Nishi Nippon City Bank Headquarter.

This building is completed in 1971, designed by Arata Isozaki (very well-known by many people in Japan not only an architect or architect student). Exterior facade is sandstone cladding, which imported from India and Sweden. Using the sandstone make this building looks softer than using glass facade like the other building. Although the outside is red but the interior of this building is white.

The highlight of this building is 6th floor(Sorry that we can't take a photo), 5 conference rooms were designed by 4 designer(because 2 rooms designed by Arata Isozaki). There're a lot of artworks which started painting at the same time as designed the interior.

The most interesting is the shadow room, an artist is Takamasu Jirou. Japanese student told me that room influened from the square room of Arata isozaki. Because Arata's artroom has not much shadow due to the indirect light design, so the shadow room has a lot of people shadows!

Some shadows are real some are fake painting maybe make people feel haunted.

At the end of the day we always have mini conference to sum up all things we've done all day(seriously). Everybody is working hard! We're quite enjoy such a great experience!

Sasiwimon.

So, Today (08-08-10) I can take a photo inside Nishi-nippon city bank headquarter.

We're guide but no foreigner today (On 6-08-10 there are french student and 2 indonesia students, they're architecture student)