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Hoshino Jinja Santuari by Shigetaka Mochizuki

Hoshino Jinja Santuari by Shigetaka Mochizuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award d'Argent in Patrimòni Cultural Competition Category.


ArgentPatrimòni Cultural· 2024

Hoshino Jinja Santuari

by Shigetaka Mochizuki

Client: Mochizuki Corporation

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Patrimòni Cultural Category

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The Design

About Hoshino Jinja Santuari

Es un abòrd innovant que combina tecnologias ancianas e novèlas, coma lo metòde de construccion tradicional japonés que n'utiliza pas cap de ferratge metalic, l'Ishiba-building e lo calcul de resisténcia limit basat sus l'analisi estructurala modèrna. Lo design, compausat de linhas orizontalas e verticalas, es fòrça estetic e es estat descrich coma una beutat estructurala atractiva basada sul sens unic japonés de la beutat.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Hoshino Jinja Santuari a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent, una reconeissença extraordinàriament prestigiosa acordada a de designs d'ort de gamma, esplendids e impressionants. Los ganhaires de l'Argent son d'òbras terriblament brilhantas e extrèmament creativas que illustran l'experiéncia, lo talent e la finessa excepcionals de lors designers. S'espèra que Hoshino Jinja Santuari siá una òbra meravilhosa e de referéncia, notablament professionala e prigondament innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent es una invencion fòrça notabla e admirada, que fa un ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Hoshino Jinja Santuari es una creacion immensament envejada que desrevelha de desirs, aduch de sentiments positius e fa néisser l'estonament e l'esmaiment.

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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