窓は壁

前に展覧会で再現された千利久作の茶室「待庵」を見た時に「窓を残して壁をつくる」との記載を見つけた。

待庵の窓は単に土壁が無い所であり、四角状に土壁を塗らないで残しただけであり、窓をつくる手法に特別なことは無く、窓と壁の違いは土壁が有るか無いかだけであり、考え方によっては「窓は壁の一部」あるいは「壁は窓の一部」となり、窓と壁のどちらに焦点を当てるかによって違うだけで、待庵の場合、面積比でいえば壁の方が多いから「窓は壁の一部」になるだろうが、メタ認知的に見れば「窓も壁も同じ」「窓は壁の違う見せ方」「窓は壁の一種」としてもいいだろう。

待庵の窓にはフレームの意味合いが無いので、外の風景を切り取るような額縁の役目は無く、壁に外の移ろいだけを投影して厳選した自然を取り入れる装置になっており、壁の一種としての窓足らんとし、茶室に施される設えと同化する。

待庵の窓だが窓ではない様には惹かれるものがあり、窓と壁を機能的に分けて考えがちな現代建築には無い様相が見られて面白い。

"Window is a wall"

When I saw the tea room "Machian" by Senrihisa, which was reproduced at the exhibition before, I found a description that "I will leave the window and make a wall".

The window of Machian is simply a place without a clay wall, it is left without painting the clay wall in a square shape, there is nothing special about the method of making a window, and the difference between a window and a wall is that there is a clay wall. Depending on the way of thinking, "window is a part of the wall" or "wall is a part of the window", and it depends on whether you focus on the window or the wall. In the case of waiting hermitage, the area In terms of ratio, there are more walls, so "windows are part of the wall", but from a meta-cognitive perspective, "windows and walls are the same", "windows look different from walls", and "windows are walls". It may be a kind of "a kind of".

Since the window of the waiting hermitage has no meaning of a frame, it does not serve as a frame to cut out the outside scenery, and it is a device that projects only the outside transition on the wall and takes in the carefully selected nature, which is a kind of wall. Assimilate with the setting given to the tea room.

Although it is a window of Machian, there is something that attracts me as if it is not a window, and it is interesting to see the appearance that is not found in modern architecture, which tends to think of windows and walls as functionally separate.