Hoshino Jinja Shrine by Shigetaka Mochizuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Silver A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Competition Category.
SilverCultural Heritage· 2024
Hoshino Jinja Shrine
Client: Mochizuki Corporation
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Cultural Heritage Category
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About Hoshino Jinja Shrine
It is an innovative approach that combines old and new technologies, such as the traditional Japanese traditional construction method that does not use any metal fittings, Ishiba-building and limit strength calculation based on modern structural analysis. The design, composed of horizontal and vertical lines, is highly aesthetic and has been described as attractive structural beauty based on the unique Japanese sense of beauty.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Hoshino Jinja Shrine is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Hoshino Jinja Shrine is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Hoshino Jinja Shrine is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Traditional Japanese Architecture Design and Construction
We create authentic Japanese buildings combining centuries-old temple carpentry with modern engineering. Our award-winning approach preserves traditional joinery techniques while ensuring structural integrity for generations. From sacred shrines to private residences, we deliver timeless architectural beauty.
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Your innovative fusion of traditional Japanese construction methods with modern structural analysis in Hoshino Jinja Shrine has earned significant recognition, including the Silver A' Design Award - could you elaborate on how this harmonious blend of old and new technologies shapes the shrine's distinctive character?
The covered hall plays an important role in protecting the main shrine from the elements. The plan to rebuild the main shrine building began because it was difficult to maintain the main shrine building due to the close proximity of the old and new buildings. The shrine officials hoped that the new covered hall would be a structure that would continue to protect the main shrine for another 100 to 200 years, while being preserved in this location for generations to come. In addition, the main shrine, which is designated as a cultural asset by the city, will be investigated, renovated, and restored.The new covered hall will be an architecture in which traditional construction methods and technologies are not antiquated but state-of-the-art through a fusion of high-dimensional clarification of traditional construction methods and technologies using modern structural analysis technology and traditional construction methods and technologies that are the work of the modern age. We hope that the building will be a landmark in the community, and at the same time, it will be an architecture that preserves the strength and comfort of wood and its traditions for future generations.
The Hoshino Jinja Shrine's design emphasizes horizontal and vertical lines to create what has been described as an "attractive structural beauty" - what inspired your approach to interpreting traditional Japanese aesthetic principles in this contemporary context?
In addition to the structural beauty that is inevitably created by the axial structure of “pillars” and “penetrations” of the traditional construction method, which has been handed down for hundreds of years, the addition of “penetrations” calculated by modern structural calculations creates more horizontal and vertical continuity in the structure, resulting in a design that combines the traditional and modern scientific perspectives. The result is a design that fuses the traditional viewpoints of the past with the scientific viewpoints of the present.
In designing Hoshino Jinja Shrine without metal fittings, how did you leverage modern limit strength calculations to ensure the structure's durability while maintaining the authenticity of traditional Japanese building techniques?
The government-subsidized project, “Creation of Design Methods and Performance Verification Experiments for Traditional Construction Methods,” conducted from 2010 to 2014, makes it possible to incorporate safety and versatility into traditional buildings from a scientific perspective based on structural mechanics clarification.This will ensure the safety of traditional buildings through modern structural calculations.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The simple design of the new covered hall, with its copper-sheet roof, the main element of the shrine, gabled roof, and horizontal and vertical lines of the pillars, stiles, and footings, expresses the Japanese sense of beauty with a very high level of design. This building is open to those who study, manage, and use architectural techniques, and functions as a place to learn about such knowledge.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Main applications Shinto shrine
Site area 0.402248ha
Building area 0.009565ha
Total floor area 0.009277ha
Maximum height 30.8395ft
Eaves Height 20.669ft - Tags
- Mochizuki Corporation, Mochizuki Architects, Architectural Design Office, Shrine carpenter, traditional techniques, architect, Architect Builder,artisan,
- Production Technology
- The masonry structure employed in this building has the aptitude to resist earthquakes and typhoons without damaging the earth.
The building was calculated and planned using the limit capacity design method, which is based on the frictional and restorative forces resulting from the combination of members, a characteristic of wooden architecture. It is truly an epoch-making building that makes full use of traditional Japanese construction methods and new technologies. - Design Challenge
- function and reflect its role without eclipsing the sacred building. The sensitive design solution was to emphasize simplicity and strength.
- Research
- The building has been used as a training site for university and technical college students, engineers, and prefectural and city officials to foster younger generations and pass on traditional techniques, and has been widely covered by the media through several public tours. As a result, it has become possible to sustain the traditional techniques of architecture. The use of local wood contributes to tradition, culture, industry, and the environment, and the shrine has become a local landmark.
- Inspiration
- The design, composed of horizontal and vertical continuous lines, is aesthetically pleasing and unique to Japanese architecture, and is considered an "attractive structural beauty.
An innovative approach that combines traditional Japanese construction methods that use no hardware at all with modern structural analysis and "limit strength calculations" to create buildings that will last for 100 or 200 years, blending old and new technologies. - Project Duration
- The project started in August 2019 in Toyokawa City, Aichi, Japan and finished in December 2021
Location 102 Kamikaizu, Hirao-chou, Toyokawa City, Aichi, Japan, Aichi, - Operation Flow
- Tradition evolves through innovations and is reborn as a new tradition.
Centuries-old traditional skills and craftsmanship combined with new modern practices and designs, will be bridging to a new traditional residential architecture, that carries on succession of skills. - Image Credits
- Photographer, Yasuo Hagiwara
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