“[…]The original campus plan was barely completed with the dormitory, cafeteria, administrative building, and bridging corridors. Yet Tange’s ideas can still be experienced and read through the framework to adapt site planning to its environmental contour, the development of a flexible extending system by placing several vertical service cores, and multiple layers of overlapping internal and external spaces. Accordingly, the Metabolist mechanism of an unlimited extension was implemented by setting five vertical towers with bridging corridors in multidirectional linking with buildings of varying heights. Despite Corbusian details evidently appeared at buildings such as rustic huge spouts made of cast concrete, the roughness of surfaces was finished by various local wash coarse gravel rather than an in-situ reinforced concrete. [...]”

Excerpt from Shao-Yu Huang’s text for the SOSBrutalism exhibition at the Jut Art Museum in Taipei, Taiwan (2020)

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