Kanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates

Kanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates - FacadeKanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates - Lighting, Fence, Facade, HandrailKanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates - FacadeKanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates - Image 5 of 9Kanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates - More Images+ 4

Text description provided by the architects. The site is located at the foot of Kanayama Castle, known for its beautiful stone wall and stone pavement. It is a community center incorporating guidance facilities for this historic place and a workshop for local residents to learn handicraft and dyeing. The site is divided at near the center by a 6m difference in levels. Bearing this physical feature in mind, it was designed to form a lane loosely connecting the two facilities, taking in a sense of distance towards its rich surrounding nature. Technically, volume of the two-story community center is replaced by a breast wall, and is connected on the 2nd level to the guidance facility via ‘community square’ on the 2nd floor, thus providing a circulative layout. The entire architecture therefore is the breast wall.

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Cite: "Kanayama Community Center / Kengo Kuma & Associates" 19 Jan 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/199706/kanayama-community-center-kengo-kuma-associates> ISSN 0719-8884

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