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Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, Kanagawa, Japan, 2008 designed by Junya Ishigami + Associates

305 columns of various sizes support the stripped roof of skylights, yet their white color keeps the focus on the space and the view, not the structure.  The columns, although seemingly random, as specifically placed to create the sensation of zoned spaces, but their nonrestrictive quality provides a flexible layout to suit the changing needs of students. -- ArchDaily

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Spanish Pavilion Expo Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 2008 designed by Francisco Mangado

Evoking the space of a forest, or of a cluster of bamboos on a surface of water, was the project’s underlying idea. Forests are changing spaces, full of hints and nuances, where concepts like verticality and depth play a key role. -- ArchDaily

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Stonehenge Visitor Centre, Wiltshire, UK, 2013 designed by Denton Corker Marshall

The building comprises three enclosures, all finished with different materials, which are sheltered beneath a undulating steel canopy and surrounded by a forest of over 200 angular steel columns. -- dezeen

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Abedian School of Architecture, Queensland, Australia, 2013 designed by CRAB Studio

....the building is airy and folds over upon itself in a series of fan-like roofs and slits with advantage is taken of the east-west axis to clarify a very climate-controlled development of the building envelope that includes sunshade ‘eyebrows’ on the sundrenched north side. -- ArchDaily

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Myoenji Columbarium, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan, 2014 designed by Furumori Koichi architectural design studio

With the random-placed timber column and sunlight which comes down from skylight through multiple-piled lattice timber roof, internal space has quite unique and impressive atmosphere. -- ArchDaily

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Community House of Lorient, Lorient, France, 2014 designed by Jean de Giacinto Architecture + Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture

Piling up a ring at the periphery of the building. It consists of metal posts of square section, arranged every 3 meters, assisted by a random series of posts. These form the solid support but also structural elements of the base. They can release the public space at the court, thus favoring open spaces for the public. Pilings create an interface between the public and most private offices spaces between the base and the foundation. This reveals the great emptiness of the open court, from the rising of the base space. -- ArchDaily