Home-for-All in Tsukihama, Miyatojima by SANAA

Four years after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan, in 2011, we take a look at new building completed under the Home-for-All program started by architect Toyo Ito in response to the disaster.

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA: Home-for-All in Tsukihama, Miyatojima. Image courtesy of Home-for-All.

We first learned about Ito's project in 2012, when Home-for-All was the theme of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the winner of the Golden Lion for best national pavilion. The intent is to provide a start of the reconstruction by persons of Tsukihama, making the building a place of rest and retirement Tsukihama for visitors and for the fishermen. Thus, “the home of all”, which is the origin of the industry source of support Daiko Denki in Tsukihama site community center, it was decided to implement it for the people of Tsukihama.

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA architects, have been working pro bono on the commissions. Their designs are refreshing, giving residents places to come together and "recover a new life," as Home-for-All aims to do.

The Miyatojima Tsukihama district was and it still is a small town surrounded by a complicated terrain. It has a small sandy beach which is in the crosshairs of many Japaneses as a tourist destination, a place where travelers can enjoy the natural environment and recover some of the traditional activity of its inhabitants engaged in fishing.

After the disaster, Miyatojima decided to recover the beaches, to attract travellers and thus find a job opportunity. As starting point of the reconstruction, people of Tsukihama thought about a place which could be used both by the fishermen and as a resting place.

"We proposed a place of rest and work that can be used for various things with a ventilated roof. A resting place open to the sea, accommodating place the work of several people. To suppress the roof to match the surrounding environment, the summer semi-outdoor space is through the south wind cold, winter, we believe that to avoid the cold north wind with carpentry", comment the architects, who with "Home-for-All" project intended to revive the seaside landscape, making it recovers as a place.

CREDITS.-

Architects.- Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA.
Structure Design.- SAP / Sasaki and Partners.
Principal Use.- Workspace for fishery, resting place.
Main Structure/Number of Stories.- Steel, Wood / 1 story.
Dates.- Completion date.- July 2014. Construction Period .- May, 2014 > July, 2014.
Area of Building.- 72 sqm.
Total Floor Area.- 72 sqm.
Constructor.- Shelter.

Venue.- Mura Miyato 77, Higashimatsushima-shi, Miyagi-ken.

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Vision of the beach. Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA: Home-for-All in Tsukihama, Miyatojima. Image courtesy of Home-for-All.

Overview. Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA: Home-for-All in Tsukihama, Miyatojima. Image courtesy of Home-for-All.

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KAZUYO SEJIMA & RYUE NISHIZAWA. SANAA

Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki, Japan, 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (Kanagawa, Japan, 1966) worked independently from each other before founding the SANAA Ltd. studio in 1995. Having studied architecture at the Japan Women’s University, Sejima went on to work for the renowned architect Toyo Ito. She set up her own studio in 1987 and in 1992 was proclaimed Young Architect of the Year in Japan. Nishizawa studied architecture at the Yokohama National University. In addition to his work with Sejima, he has had his own practice since 1997.

The studio has built several extraordinarily successful commercial and institutional buildings, civic centres, homes and museums both in Japan and elsewhere. These include the O Museum in Nagano (1999) and the N Museum in Wakayama (1997), the Day-Care Center in Yokohama (2000), the Prada Beauty Store in Tokyo and Hong Kong (2001), the Issey Miyake and Christian Dior Building in Tokyo (2003) and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (2004). Sejima also designed the famous Small House in Tokyo (2000), the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio (2001-2006), the extension to the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2002 – ), the Zollverein School, Essen, Germany (2003-2006), the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2003-2007) and the Novartis Campus WSJ-157 Office Building, Basle, Switzerland (2003 – ).

In 2004 Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale for their distinguished work on the Metamorph exhibition.

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won the 2010 Pritzker Prize.

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, was directed by Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman to direct the venice architecture biennale, since its inception in 1980.