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Ren Ito

Ren Ito Arq.

https://www.ren-ito.com/

Porto, Portugal
Ren Ito, a Japanese architect based on Porto, Portugal. He graduated at Tohoku University and AA school, London. He received a phD degree from Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon. Ren Ito has collaborated with the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from 2004 to 2011. He opened his own practice, Ren Ito Arq. in 2011. He published Álvaro Siza Design Process from IST Press Portugal and Álvaro Siza-Portuguese Architect through Gakugei Syuppan, Japan.

Call for ideas 2021

A-BOMB EXHIBITION


A-Bomb Exhibition Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A-BOMB EXHIBITION


A-Bomb Exhibition Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This is the exhibition "Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima and Nagasaki", in the atrium of the Oporto City Hall.
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

This exhibition intends to inform, disseminate historical facts and sensitizing the dangers and devastating effects of nuclear weapons.
Both visual and sonorous impact was designed with the goal of creating a sensory "trip" to the visitor. The detail details such as the treatment of light and the choice of materials/supports of the information panels were carefully designed.
More specifically, details such as the support structure on burnt wooden slats in order to convey the idea of heat and destruction. The occasional presence glasses of water along the route of the exhibition (as points of light) represent the eagerness for the victims' water needs after the a-bomb explosion.
The sound installation intended to reproduce what the victims heard at the time of the explosion as well as in the moments that followed: the sound of a bell lost in the middle of a baffle atmosphere crossed by the whistle of a wind, referring to a desert and lifeless landscape.



The entrance of the exhibition

The exhibition

The exhibition

Detail

Atomic bombs model

A-BOMB EXHIBITION


A-Bomb Exhibition Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A-BOMB EXHIBITION


A-Bomb Exhibition Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This is the exhibition "Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima and Nagasaki", in the atrium of the Oporto City Hall.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

This exhibition intends to inform, disseminate historical facts and sensitizing the dangers and devastating effects of nuclear weapons.
Both visual and sonorous impact was designed with the goal of creating a sensory "trip" to the visitor. The detail details such as the treatment of light and the choice of materials/supports of the information panels were carefully designed.
More specifically, details such as the support structure on burnt wooden slats in order to convey the idea of heat and destruction. The occasional presence glasses of water along the route of the exhibition (as points of light) represent the eagerness for the victims' water needs after the a-bomb explosion.
The sound installation intended to reproduce what the victims heard at the time of the explosion as well as in the moments that followed: the sound of a bell lost in the middle of a baffle atmosphere crossed by the whistle of a wind, referring to a desert and lifeless landscape.



The entrance of the exhibition

The exhibition

The exhibition

Detail

Atomic bombs model


Idea by

Ren Ito
Ren Ito Arq.
Porto
Portugal
Ren Ito, a Japanese architect based on Porto, Portugal. He graduated at Tohoku University and AA school, London. He received a phD degree from Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon. Ren Ito has collaborated with the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from 2004 to 2011. He opened his own practice, Ren Ito Arq. in 2011. He published Álvaro Siza Design Process from IST Press Portugal and Álvaro Siza-Portuguese Architect through Gakugei Syuppan, Japan.