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In this study, the architectural spaces of Kengo Kuma were analyzed through the recent trend, materials and tectonic methods of Japanese architecture to review his current design characteristics. The study was conducted through reviewing the collections of Kengo Kuma’s works and his books currently published in Korea and foreign countries, work critiques and interviews published in domestic and international monthly magazines and site visits and the scope of study subjects included 10 works that well expressed the characteristics of materials and construction out of Kengo Kuma’s works. Based on the result, Kengo Kuma mainly uses natural materials such as woods or stones and cuts them to small pieces to use them as construction elements. Through this way, he intended to introduce external environments into indoors so that construction and natural environments can be overlapped and coexist with each other. In terms of tectonics, sub material were arranged in vertical forms to construct spaces in the early period and the forms became more diversified into 3-dimensions in later periods. In general, his works in the early period showed architectures that coexisted with natural environments and were hidden while his works in later periods showed the characteristics of existing while considering the meanings of places together. |