The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新 by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara

The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新 by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 金獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.

金室內· 2021

The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新

by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara

Client: Kintetsu Miyako Hotels International,Inc.

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 室內 Category

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The Design

About The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新

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The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel 主要功能：翻新激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。

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