Det­ta­glio del pro­get­to ed. 2024

agri-cha­­pel / Japan

yu momoe­da

Pro­get­ti­sta YU Momoe­da
Loca­tion 2671–1 Yotsue Naga­sa­ki 851‑1123 Japan
Nazio­ne Japan
Desi­gn Team

YU Momoe­da, Yuko Abe, Takayo Fuchigami/ YU Momoe­da Architects

Anno 2016
Cre­di­ti Fotografici

You­su­ke Harigane

Foto ester­ni

Descri­zio­ne del progetto

This is a Japa­­ne­­se-woo­­den cha­pel with a frac­tal struc­tu­re system. The site is sur­roun­ded by a lar­ge natio­nal park over­loo­king the sea. We tried to con­nect the acti­vi­ty of the cha­pel to the natu­ral sur­roun­dings seam­les­sly. In Naga­sa­ki, the­re is an olde­st woo­den gothic cha­pel in Japan kno­wn as “Ohu­­ra-Ten­­shu­­dou”. This cha­pel is not only a famous tou­ri­st point, but a pla­ce loved and cared by the town­sfolk. We tried to desi­gn the buil­ding as a new gothic sty­le cha­pel, by using Japa­ne­se woo­den system. We crea­ted a pen­den­ti­ve dome by piling up a tree-like unit that extends upward by shrinking*1 and increa­sing. Star­ting by four 120mm squa­re pil­lars uni­ts, the second layer is com­po­sed by eight (4+1/2*8) 90mm squa­re pil­lars uni­ts, and the last layer by six­teen 60mm squa­re pil­lars uni­ts. We could pro­vi­de usa­ble open spa­ce by redu­cing the pil­lars near floor level. The­se tree-like uni­ts are con­struc­ted by Japa­ne­se woo­den system. The four cor­ner bea­ring walls under­ta­ke the hori­zon­tal for­ce, and the inner woo­den unit sup­ports roof load which count up to 25 tons. This inclu­des cha­rac­te­ri­stics seen in gothic cha­pels such as 1.Three laye­red com­po­si­tion, 2.Nave/ Side cor­ri­dor, 3.45 degrees rota­tion, which inte­gra­tes struc­tu­re, spa­ce, and inte­rior.  *1 Shrin­king by a/√2, rota­ting 45°

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