Cultural Center Kadare, Yurihonjo City Building, Akita Prefecture Architecture
Yurihonjo City Cultural Center, Japan : Kadare Building
Cultural Center Building in Japan – design by chiaki arai urban and architectural design
17 Aug 2012
Yurihonjo City Cultural Center in Kadare
Architects: chiaki arai urban and architectural design
Project Description
Kadare Cultural Center
photographs © 2012 Taisuke Ogawa
This is a complex institution composed of Multipurpose Transforming Theater, Library and Community Center. Originally, this project had two sites sandwiching a road. chiaki arai urban and architectural design combined sites by placing an indoor “Gathering Steet” which gives access to each function. Its fissure like form lets sunlight into the deep center of the building.
Developed in the workshops with locals, the spaces were designed based on somesthetic experiences – human scale, the usability of rooms. Its structure follows spaces like how mangrove trees grow, and it embraces a high level of redundancy as a structural system. It is not a consistent, but the inconsistent spaces.
photographs © 2012 Taisuke Ogawa
Also chiaki arai urban and architectural design had organized workshops with local children and students who are the bears of the future of the region. The whole process of Kadare contributes to “Cultural Sustainability”.
Multiporpose Transforming Theater – This theater has varying configrations such as flat floor, normal, center stage to be used for various events. The movable seats adapting to multi-configrations with perfect acoustics was designed for this theater. Seats of the first floor can gathered at the back side of the theater and it stored in the pit underneath. The stage also decends for flat floor configration.
photographs © 2012 Taisuke Ogawa
“Super Box” – Theater, Citizen Activity Room, Gallery and north and south Pocket Parks combined. These facilities can be connected together to make a 135 meter long, dynamic and spacious tunnel.
Library and Planetarium – Planetarium floats above Library like a moon. Only four bending columns support it, and there are skylights around of it. The large open space of the library, achieved with minimum structure elements, has space for about 220 thousands volumes and there are a total of 188 browsing seats. Users can choose from these various browsing spaces.
photographs © 2012 Taisuke Ogawa
Yurihonjo City Cultural Center Japan – Building Information
Name of project: Yurihonjo City Cultural Center
Location: Yurihonjo City, Akita Prefecture, Japan
Completed: 2012
Photographs: Taisuke Ogawa and Chiaki Arai office
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