Yg project 2024.05.02
Concept
The resort facility and accommodation facility for a certain company. The traditional 130-year-old house stood on site protected by 100-year-old Fukugi (garcinia) tree. We tried to reproduce but decided to rebuild it as it was severely deteriorated. Therefore, the owner requested to take over its historic atmosphere, to protect original scenery and construct wooden folk house with new form which settles on site, also assume as an information center of Okinawa culture.
A big eave which is a feature of Okinawa traditional old house and opening section would reduce load-bearing wall and have low tolerance for blow up wind of typhoon. It is also out of the latest construction specification regulation for wooden house, so we performed structural analysis and take wooden frames of traditional construction method and beams as reinforcing materials to new design.
Plan is locating front room and back room which is from Okinawa traditional old house and install water section wrapping with RC box for moisture protection between front and back rooms. The foundation is not stone built to protect inundation disaster but applies RC up to raised floor.
Originally we planned to use cement roof tiles and reuse cedar board formwork which is used at RC architecture, but during three-year-design stage that was also under pandemic of COVID-19, the last person who could produce cement roof tiles in Okinawa stopped because of his age, and as there is difficulty to store exterior wall materials, we decided to use the materials from outside Okinawa.
The Water Feature from the old unused well would provide bless to the users as biotope. The new but traditional folk house that takes elements of Okinawa such as big Fukugi (garcinia) tree, deep eave, and opening section. We focused on eternal history and aimed to create the place where people can feel slow time.
