Hoshino Jinja Santuario by Shigetaka Mochizuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Patrimonio Cultural Competition Category.
PlataPatrimonio Cultural· 2024
Hoshino Jinja Santuario
Client: Mochizuki Corporation
A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Patrimonio Cultural Category
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The Design
About Hoshino Jinja Santuario
Es un enfoque innovador que combina tecnologías antiguas y nuevas, como el método de construcción tradicional japonés que no utiliza ningún herraje metálico, la construcción Ishiba y el cálculo de resistencia límite basado en análisis estructural moderno. El diseño, compuesto por líneas horizontales y verticales, es altamente estético y ha sido descrito como una atractiva belleza estructural basada en la singular sensibilidad estética japonesa.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Plata
Hoshino Jinja Santuario ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Hoshino Jinja Santuario sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Hoshino Jinja Santuario es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
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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