Imabari City Public Hall

Japanese: 今治市公会堂 - いまばりしこうかいどう
Imabari City Public Hall

...The monumental building that coined the term "folded plate structure" in architectural construction was the UNESCO Headquarters (Paris) in 1958. In Japan, reinforced concrete folded plate structures have been built since the late 1950s, and the buildings that pioneered this were the Imabari City Public Hall in Ehime Prefecture (1958) and the Setagaya Ward Public Hall in Tokyo (1959). A corrugated sheet shell, which is made up of cylindrical shells arranged in parallel, can be said to be the same structural system as the folded plate structure in (1). ...

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Japanese:

…建築構造の中に,折板構造という新しいことばを生み出した記念すべき建物は1958年のユネスコ本部(パリ)であった。日本においても,1950年代後半から鉄筋コンクリート折板構造が建てられるようになってきているが,その端緒を切り開いた建物は,愛媛県の今治市公会堂(1958)と東京都の世田谷区公会堂(1959)である。円筒シェルを並列に並べた波板シェルは,(1)の折板構造と同じ構造システムといえる。…

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