Dutch architects MVRDV have sent us an animation of Gyre, their recently opened retail centre in Tokyo, showing how the building’s volume was generated.
Gyre, also known as The Swirl, is generated from five identical rectangular floorplates that are rotated on a vertical axis and then trimmed to fit the site on Omotesando street in Tokyo. See more photos of the completed building in our earlier story.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
January 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Fascinating and elegant animation… exposing the secrets. Love the animation and the result of the concept. I only hope the building’s not in a particularly windy location.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Considering it’s MVRDV, the building will probably pretty spectacular. However, the animation pales to that of OMA’s Louisville animation done by Brookyn Foundry.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Nice to see the blue foam back in the movies.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
random architecture….sometimes it s better not to explain the designing processs…..
January 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Uh oh, another ’stacked boxes’ phase.
January 9th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
what designing process?
useless.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I think Art Van de Lay did a similar project, and it didn’t take that long either.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I hear Mark magazine is featuring this building in its next issue. Should be out 1 February. Look out for that. http://www.mark-magazine.com
BTW, some of these comments sound really jaded. Could it be we’re being desensitized by too much information as a result of all the blogs? I can imagine someone finding three projects featuring ’stacked boxes’ on one day, can get tired really quickly of this type of architecture.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Impressed to see anything like this actually realised. Followed through thoroughly and accurately, assuming that animation was done before construction…? What a labrynth of process and man hours. Someone has to set the bar, even if the bar isn’t what everyone admires.
Do a special on the details Dezeen. More about the process!
January 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
SANAA.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
i’m not jaded. that animation is useless. it might end up being a ‘fresh’ building. but, i would say that the animation reveals nothing about any kind of coherent process that any of the rest of us could learn from. it looks like they had a summer intern doing an animation tutorial and gave her some fodder.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
The real thing kicks ass… MVRDV are back on form
January 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am
it’s really rubbish!
mvrdv are great - completely hit and miss tho
even if this building does have a coherant rational process this animation in no way illuminates it-
i agree with the above comment (’nice to see blue foam back inthe movies)
+ it looks like mvrdv have gone back into their ’shit’ phase
January 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
swagger is not a must,….its a liability.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
A few jaunty angles don’t stop it looking like a dull government building. Oppresive and claustrophobic. And all those steps look like a chore.
January 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I always want to pretend to be an architect to pick some chicks….
ART WANDELAY
p.s. let us bluff some more