A STUDY ON THE DESIGN OF NAGASAWA FILTRATION PLANT BY MAMORU YAMADA

Abstract

In order to identify a taste of Yamada Mamoru's view of architecture in the Nagasawa Filtration Plant, which was designed by him in 1957, it is the aesthetic characteristics of the Nagasawa Filtration Plant are analyzed in this paper. Based on the documents obtained from the Waterworks Bureau as well as the literature on Yamada's work, the circumstances leading to the construction of the Nagasawa Filtration Plant as well as the context within which Yamada designed it are understood. The features of the architectural design of the building are identified from the original drawings, e.g. the site plan, the floor plans, the section plans and the elevation plans. Also the methods for deciding the curves shown in the columns and the openings are calculated from the original diagrams which detail the shape of the columns.