Doshisha Chapel Complex Competition Entry / BAKOKO + Structured Environment
Architects BAKOKO, in collaboration with engineers Structured Environment, shared with us their proposal for a new chapel and Center for Christian Culture at Doshisha University’s Kyoto campus. With structure, form, and function molded into a singular totality, their intention is not to draw attention to the form of the building, but rather, to merge floor, walls, and roof into an immersive experience prioritizing personal reflection and human interaction within the central sanctums. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Shiseikan / Kengo Kuma & Associates
Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Completion: 2008
Site area: 65,892.34 sqm
Total floor area: 5,002.529 sqm
Photographs: Fujita Syashin Kobo
House In Kyoto / FORM | Kouichi Kimura
Architects: FORM | Kouichi Kimura
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Client: Private
Construction Year: 2011
Site Area: 355,72 sqm
Constructed Area: 213,20 sqm
Photographs: Takumi Ota
New Kyoto Town House / Alphaville Architects
Architect: Alphaville Architects – Kentaro Takeguchi + Asako Yamamoto
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Project Team: Tomohisa Koike(Associate Architect), Kazuo Takeguchi(Structural Engineer)
General contractor: Craftman Ship Kawana
Project Area: 78.68 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of Alphaville Architects
Keyhole House / EASTERN Design Office
Architects: EASTERN Design Office
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Project Area: 103.47 sqm
Photographs: Koichi Torimura
72h OpenJapan WorkJam
OpenSimSim is an open source architecture network based in Berlin. At the moment they are initiating a 72hr worldwide workSprint in order to create a sustainable project for Japan. This project will be developed by people in various cities around the world (Tokyo, Chennai, Moscow, Berlin, Madrid, Pisa, Torino, Lisbon, New York, Kansas).
The event will start at 10am (1am GMT) on June 10th with a six hour work session in Kyoto, Japan, out of which will come the basis of our ideas and possible real projects collected beforehand and discussed within the advisory board of OpenJapan. The results from this first brain storming session will be passed over to the next city by order of timezone. After 24h the status of the work will be handed back to one node in Japan. This principle of a relay race will be repeated over 72h.
For more information, please go to the event’s official website.
House in Ichijoji / Tadahiro Shimada
Architects: Tadahiro Shimada
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Project Year: 2010-2011
Project Area: 59.63 sqm
Photographs: Kei Sugino
Atelier K / Kensaku Tohmoto
Architects: Kensaku Tohmoto
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Contractor: Sanwa Koumuten Co. Ltd.
Project area: 86 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Yoshiyuki Hirai
Kyoto-Model: A House With 3 Walls / Shigenori UOYA, Miwako MASAOKA, Takeshi IKEI
Architects: Shigenori UOYA, Miwako MASAOKA, Takeshi IKEI
Location: Kyoto-city, Japan
Constructor: Kento
Project area: 121 sqm
Photographs: Kei SUGINO
MON Factory/House / EASTERN Design Office
Architects: EASTERN Design Office + HOJO Structure Research Institute
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Client: Morita MON factory
Site Area: 236.90 sqm
Total Floor Area: 259.78 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Koichi Torimura
