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ATG Kindergarten and Nursery / HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro + Kids Design Labo

Hana Abdel — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Tokamachi is an area of severe wilderness where cold air from the land and warm currents from the Sea of Japan collide with the Echigo Sanzan mountains, resulting in a lot of snowfall. In Tokamachi, a traditional event called "Honyara-do" has been passed down from generation to generation. "Honyara-do" is where everyone gathers to eat, play, enjoy, and learn, a scene that has continued in this area for a long time. The new school building is a place like "Honyara-do" that is "regardless of the season."

Tunnel of Light / MAD Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

In Echigo-Tsumari in Japan’s mountainous snow country traditional ways of farming are still being practiced. The region is suffering from an aging and decreasing population as many young people relocate to cities for work or education. In 2000, Fram Kitagawa founded the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale to revive the region’s cultural energy.

Porous Manifold as a Japanese Tearoom / F.A.D.S. + Fujiki Studio + KOU::ARC

Paula Pintos — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Breathing architecture like a living-thing:
This temporary art work is a nested structure with a two-tatami space embedded in ten foot square hut. The use is a Japanese traditional tearoom. We constructed it by ourselves. It was exhibited in Echigo-tsumari Art Triennale 2018 in Japan. In this exhibition, architects were asked to respond to the theme of how to overcome the concept of homogeneous space which was dominant in the 20th century. It is distorted homogeneous space to create irregularities by the random pattern of the skeleton and proposed an art-tecture with many holes which are open and close as necessary to communicate with the outside like living things.

Space-time Cave in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale / C+ Architects

舒岳康 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:00:00 +0000

A 10-foot square hut - Through observing a micro world, seeing a macro universe
The universe exists even in the tiniest world, and the unit that measures the universe is only time and space.

Cottage in Tsumari / Daigo Ishii + Future-scape Architects

Gracia Vera — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A low-cost public cottage for locals and visitors, located within a beech woods park, within a region with the heaviest snowfall in Japan, often as deep as 4m. It was an architecture in that two volumes were combined.