Kanagawa Pref. ¨C A summer afternoon filters into KAIT Plaza in small doses. Sunlight falls through the roof¡¯s rectangular openings, patterning the floor in pale blocks. Voices carry in from across campus, along with the crack of bats from the adjacent baseball field.
The space is enclosed and exposed at once, beneath a broad roof that seems almost weightless despite its scale. Designed by Junya Ishigami for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) and completed in 2008, KAIT Plaza has become a sought-after destination for architecture enthusiasts, though public access is limited to advance reservations for occasional open days and special events.
Photographs capture the building¡¯s design, but KAIT Plaza reveals itself through the experience of being inside it. That was the premise behind ¡°Discovering KAIT,¡± a one-day tea ceremony and listening event conceived by the Tokyo-based studio Lento Story.
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