Post 5- Japanese architecture

I will talk about 19th and 20th century Japanese architecture. An analysis from the Studio Ghibli scenarios.

The aim is to show through one studio ghibli films, how architecture in cinematic fictions contributes to the representation of a cultural framework that can account for an existing reality, mixed with fantasy, which allows us to reinterpret "the existing" in a more complete way, generating both conceptual and formal connections and thus reworking the understanding of the world and, in turn, of architecture.

STUDIO GHIBLI FILMS
The open plans present recognizable elements, sometimes being reliable references of existing architectural elements, which in the open plans lose apparent protagonism, remaining in a certain latency in the development of the story, but ready for new reinterpretations.

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO
A total of 167 photomontages were observed, showing architectural elements. Of these frames, 80 show the house where the Kusakabe family lives, and the rest show other elements of the village where the main characters live.

Architectural problems: It is similar to that possessed by dwellings in Japan. The "cultural houses" have a de-rooted aesthetic, which is adaptable and adoptable, but in that process it becomes alien and unknown by being censored from the canonical history of Japanese architecture, and it is exotic and even fantastic for the Japanese.

History, the way of living and architecture are closely related to culture since the beginning of time. This could be seen in the film in relation to the theme of traditional housing, the process of incorporation of the architectural avant-garde and the way in which it begins to reflect on the Japanese way of living.