coated plywood

Today, we have so many kind of coated plywood. If you use coated plywood, you can get any kind of board you like. First you make a frame which size is depend on you. Second you put coated plywood which is printed with your favorite pattern on the frame. In this way, you can get 100m very light metal board.

The boad made by frame and coated plywood is very useful. It's not expensive and easy to bring. So, it's used in many ways. Tables, bookshelfs, doors, partitions and so on. Using like that board in office is no problem. However I think useing it in house is not good.

The biggest reason is aging. A scratch on the table which made by coated plywood never diapper. And form the first scratch, damages will widen. A scratch on the table which made by pure wood also diaapper, but by the aging it will fade into the background.

Over the life time of a table, If you polish the surface, the pure wood table will regain their brilliance. Even If you don't polish the table it will be remamin close to it's original condition. But the coted plywood table won't. You have to buy new one, and old one is in the garbage

Of course, coated plywood is good for people who like new. But it's not good for people who like to use one for a long time. I would rather latter case.

Moriyama House

Moriyama House was designed by Ryue Nishizawa in 2005. There are 10 seperated rooms. Mr Moriyama is using 4 rooms, his freind from childhood is useing 1 room and the other 5 rooms are rented.

Mr Nishizawa, in his book, wrote that Transparency and Asunder is the principle of this architecture. And that this house looks very different form ambient enviroment which keeps old downtown residential style, but the idea of openhearted life that uses a garden is common.

In urban area in Japan, many of people make fences around their house to protect their privacy. I think fences makes town scape boring. Each house is completely seperated. There is a little greenery. I don't like today's town scape but on the other hand, I know that fances cannot be avoided in Japan. Because usually the site is very small.

The most surpriseing thing to visit here is that I can easily to look inside the rooms. But there are very interseting space like old downtown residential style. I think, If you decide to live in downtown not in a apartment but in a house, you have to chose fence house or Moriyama house.

I like Moriyama house. But in view of Japanese present situation, Moriyama house is only a particuler solution. Fence houses are the most accepable solution.