This interesting Kengo Kuma’s plan has a cooking workshop, playrooms and a tatami hall, uses the repetition of the elements all along the façade to pretend the skyline of the near houses, and so that, it could be linked to its urban landscape and surroundings.
Kuma, as in the majority of his proposals, makes a masterly use of the wood in this project, in the same way that other contemporary architects make it, like Shigeru Ban, with whom resemblances in the employment of the wood can be find.
Description of the project by Kengo Kuma & Associates
This wooden building was constructed as the city’s community center for people to gather. We repeated the roofs for the façade so that it could merge into the neighboring townscape of small houses.
On the exterior wall, wainscot panels are applied with spaces in between, and it expresses a warm and friendly face to the street of the land to the north. The street in front of the building actually extends into the interior, and is given the name “Michi-no-Hiroba (plaza for the street)”, around which a children’s playroom, cooking studio and tatami room are arranged.
Text.- Kengo Kuma & Associates
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architecs.- Kengo Kuma & Associates.
Structure.- Sato Atsushi Structure Design Office.
Textile design.- Kengo Kuma and Associates.
Owner.- Towada City, Towada.
Client.- Towada City, Towada.
Use.- Community Center.
Type of structure.- Steel.
Finishing.- Cedar board and mesh sheet.
Plot.- 5.774,16 sqm.
Constrution Area: 1.875,37 sqm.
Maximum Height.- 6,795 m.
Project date.- January 2012 - February 2.013.
Construction date.- July 2.013- October 2.014.
Location.- Towada, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
