Eternize Hokusai's work. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
25/03/2021.
[Sumida-ku - Tokyo] Japan
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Kazuyo Sejima, who together with Ryue Nishizawa lead the SANAA architecture studio, has designed the Sumida Hokusai Museum, in the homonymous district of the Japanese capital. The project is shown as a series of prismatic volumes that merge to form a homogeneous element to work together.
The museum is mostly dedicated to the work of the international figure of Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849), one of the leading artists of the Edo period. This new museum displays a large part of the huge graphic work that he made, from landscapes, engravings to satirical drawings about the Japanese population of the mid-nineteenth century.
The museum is mostly dedicated to the work of the international figure of Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849), one of the leading artists of the Edo period. This new museum displays a large part of the huge graphic work that he made, from landscapes, engravings to satirical drawings about the Japanese population of the mid-nineteenth century.
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Forward Stroke. Image courtesy of The Sumida Hokusai Museum.
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Forward Stroke. Image courtesy of The Sumida Hokusai Museum.
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Forward Stroke. Image courtesy of The Sumida Hokusai Museum.
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Forward Stroke. Image courtesy of The Sumida Hokusai Museum.
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kakidai CC BY-SA 4.0
The Sumida Hosukai Museum by Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Kakidai CC BY-SA 4.0
Site plan. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
First floor plan. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
Second floor plan. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
Third floor plan. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
Fourth floor plan. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
Basement floor plan. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
Section. The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The Sumida Hosukai Museum de Kazuyo Sejima. Photograph by Vincent Hecht
The project of the Sumida Hokusai Museum dialogues urbanistically with the essence of the district and adapts in scale to the buildings of the immediate urban environment, buildings with a medium-small scale, adapting at the same time the identity of Hokusai's work and reflecting clearly the architecture that characterizes Kazuyo Sejima.
The complex's electropolished aluminum cladding allows the project to blend in and blend into the district of the Japanese capital, despite being a building whose formal solution could focus the prominence of the immediate urban environment. However, the mirror effect produced by the material used allows users to recognize the surrounding urban landscape.
Internally, the complex has a very different program of uses that know how to organize themselves strategically in this highly polyhedral volume, from fixed and temporary exhibitions such as libraries or cafeterias.
The complex's electropolished aluminum cladding allows the project to blend in and blend into the district of the Japanese capital, despite being a building whose formal solution could focus the prominence of the immediate urban environment. However, the mirror effect produced by the material used allows users to recognize the surrounding urban landscape.
Internally, the complex has a very different program of uses that know how to organize themselves strategically in this highly polyhedral volume, from fixed and temporary exhibitions such as libraries or cafeterias.
Description of project by Kazuyo Sejima
This is a project for a museum of Hokusai Katsushika standing in a small park in Ryogoku Sumida-ward, Tokyo. Ryogoku, the birthplace of Hokusai, has a gridded street pattern with middle to small size buildings are standing. A requested building volume of the museum was divided into smaller volumes to fit the scale of surrounding buildings. Those smaller volumes merge into one another at a certain floor as a single building, and distance each other at a certain floor as several buildings.
The building has a closed enclosure in order to preserve Ukiyoe painting, however has an open relationship to the outside through the slits in between the volumes. The program consists with regular and special exhibition space, storage space, and in addition, multipurpose hall, café, library and so on. The friendly scenery of surrounding townscape will reflect onto the electro polishing aluminum façade of the building.
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Architects
Project team
Staff.- Yoshitaka Tanase, Rikiya Yamamoto, Satoshi Ikeda, Kota Fukuhara.
Collaborators
Structural engineers.- Sasaki Structural Consultants. Mechanical engineers.- P.T.Morimura and Associates.
Builder
Area
Site area.- 1,254.14sqm. Building area.- 699.67sqm. Total floor area.- 3,278.87sqm.
Budget
3,000,000,000JPY (€23,477,690.61).
Dates
2016.
Location
Kamezawa, Ryogoku Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Photography
KAZUYO SEJIMA
Kazuyo Sejima. Architect. Born 1956 in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. Master’s in Architecture, Japan Women’s University, 1981. Worked in office of Toyo Ito before founding Kazuyo Sejima and Associates in 1987. Founded SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. Awards won by SANAA include the Arnold Brunner Memorial Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002), the Golden Lion at the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2004), a design prize from the Architectural Institute of Japan (2006), the Kunstpreis Berlin from the Berlin Academy of Arts (2007), and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2010). Works by SANAA include the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art; the De Kunstlinie Theater and Cultural Center in Almere...
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