Window Behaviorology – The Working Window

“In the morning, open the windows and start the business and at night close the window and close the business. Moving in unison with rhythm of life, one would be templed to start personifying the window. Windows that can be through of as working partners.”

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo, WindowScape, Window Behaviourology, Page One Publishing Pte Ltd, 2011

Window Behaviorology – The Working Window explores the relationship between windows, work, and behavior. Through cases from Denmark, Japan, and Switzerland, the exhibition examines windows as an active part of routines in workshops, factories, and production spaces. Through industrialization, the size, mechanisms and performance of the windows advanced and they became almost like colleagues in the workplace. Windows would manage daylight, airflow, visibility, and climate thereby influencing both industrial workers and their processes.

The exhibition was curated in close collaboration between the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zürich, VILLUM Window Collection, and Copenhagen Architecture Forum. It is a satellite of the exhibition ‘Window Behaviorology’ currently on display at VILLUM Window Collection.

The Japanese part comes from the connected exhibition ‘Window Behaviorology’ at VILLUM Window Collection, developed by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Tsukamoto Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo.

The Swiss part is from the book, Swiss Window Journeys Architectural Field Notes, by the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zürich, gta Verlag, 2023.

The Danish part is made specifically for this exhibition by the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zürich, in collaboration with VILLUM Window Collection. Two of the exhibited windows are on loan from VILLUM Window Collection while the third is part of the building.

VILLUM Window Collection

VILLUM Window Collection is a museum for windows and daylight, with a large collection of windows, permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as research and events.

Momoyo Kaijima

Momoyo Kaijima is Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETH Zürich, and co-founder of Atelier Bow-Wow together with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.

Credit

VILLUM Window Collection: Dorthe Bech-Nielsen, Alberte Marie Brinckmann, Anna Elizabeth Rosendahl, Maria Hagerup.

Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zürich: Momoyo Kaijima, Basil Witt.

CAFx: Josephine Michau, Ida Willadsen Bang Kjeldsen, Pernille Maria Bärnheim, Søren Nørkjær Bang, Johann Sten Nielsen, Elias Lont, Line Vestergaard Cramer, Jannes Schmidt, Amalie Bennetzen.

Swiss drawings: Matthias Burkhalter, Lena Stamm, Juliet Ishak with Momoyo Kaijima and Simona Ferrari.

Danish drawings: Fabian Zihlmann, Haru Noguchi, Benjamin Rytz with Momoyo Kaijima and Basil Witt.

Japanese drawings: Tetsuro Toida, Neyses Judith, Antya Rahmaningdyah, Yangzom Wujohktsang, Ratanakoosakul Puripat, Sinan Kolip with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.