The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Frumhlutverk: Endurgerð by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award í gulli in Innanhúss- og sýningarhönnun Competition Category.
GullInnanhúss· 2021
The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Frumhlutverk: Endurgerð
by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara
Client: Kintetsu Miyako Hotels International,Inc.
A' Design Award í gulli Winner in Innanhúss Category
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About The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Frumhlutverk: Endurgerð
Bókartexti: Kapellan, sem er einstaklega frumleg og hönnuð til að tjá nýjan anda Kyoto, getur hýst sífellt fjölbreyttari brúðkaupsstíla sem nútímapör sækjast eftir, þar á meðal ekki aðeins hefðbundnar kirkjuathafnir heldur einnig Shinto-athafnir og veraldlegar athafnir. Notað var eins mikið af núverandi burðarvirki og mögulegt var, og bætt við viðargrind í loftinu sem er fléttuð með óbeinni lýsingu til að vekja upp tilfinningu fyrir sólarljósi sem streymir í gegnum trjágreinar. Útkoman er heilagt rými gætt hefðbundinni japanskri fagurfræði og djúpri virðingu fyrir ríkulegu náttúrulegu umhverfi sínu.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award í gulli
The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Frumhlutverk: Endurgerð vann A' Design Award í gulli, óendanlega virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er fyrsta flokks, dásamlegum og framúrskarandi hönnunarverkum. Sigurvegarar í gulli eru afar nýstárleg, framsýn og töfrandi glæsileg sköpunarverk sem endurspegla snilld, visku og hæfni hönnuða sinna. Þess er vænst að The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Frumhlutverk: Endurgerð sé mjög lofuð, brautryðjandi og stórfengleg uppfinning sem skilar fordæmislausu virði. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í gulli er stórbrotið, virt verkefni sem gagnast mörkum listar, vísinda, hönnunar og tækni mjög vel og færir þau fram á við. The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Frumhlutverk: Endurgerð skapar sterkar þráartilfinningar, vekur ástríðu, hvetur til sköpunar og heillar okkur.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Founded 130 years ago, the Westin Miyako Kyoto is an elegant hotel with a proud history nestled into the foothills of the city’s Higashiyama district. The same elegance and quality were essential in this major renovation and earthquake retrofit of the chapel, which occupies a separate building on the hotel property. Intended to express the new spirit of Kyoto, the highly original chapel is able to accommodate the increasingly diverse range of wedding styles sought by contemporary couples, including not only conventional church ceremonies but also Shinto and non-religious ceremonies.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- We were asked to create a new space without altering the building’s existing framework. Because this condition ruled out the installation of skylights, we used artificial lighting to replicate the appearance of natural light. Regulations required that the wooden latticework on the ceiling and walls be semi-fireproof, so we used fire retardant lumber.
- Tags
- Chapel Renovation, Chapel design,
- Production Technology
- We strengthened the connection with the woods behind the building by redesigning the windows to remove mullions and increase transparency, as well as by shining a sunny light on the natural-stone wall in order to bring the exterior space into the interior. We valued the atmosphere created by materials themselves, expressing the contrast between delicacy and strength through the use of stained, fire-proofed cedar woods and unpolished granite from the mountains of Shodoshima.
- Design Challenge
- The construction plans and specifications taking up most effort in the project is the lighting design and form and density (spacing) of the ceiling lattice, which together replicate light shining between trees, the building’s most distinctive characteristic. The wooden louvers on the walls create a sense of depth and rhythm, both tying the entire space together by linking to the ceiling lattice and ensuring the high quality, serene reverberations required in a chapel.
- Research
- Founded 130 years ago, the Westin Miyako Kyoto is an elegant hotel with a proud history nestled into the foothills of the city’s Higashiyama district; the present main building and Kasui-en Annex were both designed by Togo Murano and completed in 1960 and 1959 respectively. The same elegance and quality were essential in this major renovation and earthquake retrofit of the chapel, which occupies a separate building on the hotel property.
- Inspiration
- As a show of respect to the abundant natural surroundings, rock and wood take center stage in this sacred space imbued with a traditional Japanese aesthetic. we utilized as much of the existing framework as possible while also incorporating elements of traditional shrine and temple architecture, adding a wooden ceiling lattice interwoven with indirect lighting that evokes sunlight pouring through the branches of trees and highlights the beauty of the shadows and gradations that are created as light falls through the multi-layered lattice.
- Project Duration
- Location, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Renovation Area, 237m2
The project started in April 2019 in Kyoto and finished in April, 2020 - Team Members
- Takenori Katori
Fumi Habara - Image Credits
- WMH_1.jpg:Photographer Tomohiro Sakashita, 2020
WMH_2.jpg:Photographer Tomohiro Sakashita, 2020
WMH_3.jpg:Photographer Tomohiro Sakashita, 2020
WMH_4.jpg:Photographer Tomohiro Sakashita, 2020
WMH_5.jpg:Photographer Tomohiro Sakashita, 2020
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