Fuwaku Residential by Shigetaka Mochizuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2024
Fuwaku Residential
Client: Mochizuki Corporation
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Fuwaku Residential
The building is a modern interpretation of traditional techniques and craftsmanship. The deep eaves of the sloping roof and the linear impression of the wooden latticework, combined with the painted walls, create a peaceful exterior atmosphere. The interior features a six-layered coffered ceiling composed of horizontal and vertical lines, and the beauty of the traditional painted walls and unique structural beauty expresses a Japanese sense of aesthetics and outstanding design.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Fuwaku Residential is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Fuwaku Residential is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Fuwaku Residential splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative fusion of traditional Japanese palace carpentry techniques with modern design elements in Fuwaku Residential has earned recognition including the Bronze A' Design Award - could you elaborate on how you achieved this delicate balance while maintaining architectural authenticity?
In order to change the anachronistic image of traditional technology handed down from the past as an evolutionary form of tradition, we create architecture that gives people spiritual comfort by allowing them to feel the harmony of materials and wood with all five senses through “the beauty of attractive structure” and “the beauty of use” based on traditional techniques and skills.
The deep eaves and wooden latticework of Fuwaku Residential create a striking visual harmony - what inspired your decision to incorporate these specific traditional elements in such a contemporary way?
We wanted to change the anachronistic image of traditional techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation. We designed this product to convey the delicacy of traditional techniques to a wider audience in the modern age, with the hope that it will lead to the inheritance of traditional techniques that have been in decline for centuries.
How does the six-layered coffered ceiling in Fuwaku Residential, with its intricate horizontal and vertical lines, reflect your philosophy about preserving and evolving traditional Japanese architectural craftsmanship?
By expressing traditional techniques that had been seen as horizontal surfaces in three-dimensional form, a visual element from an angle was added, giving the viewer a three-dimensional thinking and creating a myriad of possibilities.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The new building is a new living space that creates an appropriate distance between the new house and the main house, which are separate living styles, through deep eaves, in harmony with the main house, garden, and access road, designated as a Tangible Cultural Property by the national government.
The building is a modern interpretation of traditional technology and techniques, from the evolution of tradition to the pursuit of attractive structural beauty and beauty of use. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Main applications private residence
Site area 0.178672ha
Building area 0.008329ha
Total floor area 0.006552ha
Maximum height 18.9499ft
Eaves Height 11.3975ft - Tags
- Mochizuki Corporation, Mochizuki Architects, Architectural Design Office, Shrine carpenter, artisan,traditional techniques, architect, Architect Builder
- Production Technology
- The architecture is a modern interpretation of traditional palace carpentry techniques. The linearity and rhythm of the deep eaves and the wooden lattice covering the exterior walls, combined with the painted walls, provide a sense of calm and security. Inside, the six layers of latticework form a three-dimensional structure that, in combination with the painted walls, expresses the Japanese aesthetic of beauty of use and the charm of the structural beauty of woodwork.
- Design Challenge
- Tradition evolves and becomes tradition through innovation.
The fusion of traditional craftsmanship, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, with new modern craftsmanship and design is a difficult path to a new architectural tradition, but this building will be an architectural link in the succession of technology. - Research
- Only natural local lumber and materials, not processed by manufactures, are used for construction. The building is designed for residents to have a soothing, peaceful mind and comfortable environment with various specifications of traditional skills and craftsmanship, that you can enjoy with five senses. This project contributes to revitalize community and industries using local products.
- Inspiration
- This construction, an evolution of tradition, that changes the stereotype of an anachronistic image of residence, and results in conversion of traditional structural skills and craftsmanship including traditional method. While enjoying the aging process of exterior and interior materials as time goes by, main residence, garden and roads in the surroundings creates a harmony in landscape and adds charms of architecture.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 in Toyokawa City, Aichi, Japan and finished in August 2021
Location 63-1 63-3 Ohori, Shinozukacho, Toyokawa City, 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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