zai shirakawa and genki mori diverts strong winds away from meeting place in tohoku

zai shirakawa architects & associates has shared their latest project ‘meeting place of the tokoku’, a structure that fuses an indoor and outdoor aesthetic planned for the residents of the noda-mura village, a quaint seaside town in the iwate prefecture. the context itself is based by the sea and was one of the locations destructed from the  great east earthquake in 2005.

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the facility features an assembly hall inside and the half-pitched structure influenced from studying the direction of wind; especially the easterly wind called ‘yamase’. this strong easterly breeze often disturbs external activities and with this, zai shirakawa considered a structure that would have an outdoor path providing shelter with its oversized eaves, while blocking out the wind using the adjoining building as a shield. inside, the modest interior is light-filled and adaptable to the local events held. the large timber trusses of the roof are sloped, raised slightly higher than the assembly hall itself and provides a path for the wind to flow out on the other side and in turn, a provides stable external environment.

project info:

location : iwate
use : meeting place, shop
completion : 2015/12
structure : timber
number of floors : 1
site area : 1200.02 sqm
building area : 409.90 sqm
architectural area : 358.61 sqm
structure : tatsumi terado structural studio

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