Art Museum Mizunoki.
08/11/2013.
By Kumiko Inui. [Kameoka, Kyoto] Japan.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
metalocus, SERGIO CIDONCHA.
Memory of project.
Not all machiya (Japanese traditional townhouses) are cultural legacies. Some are real tools for living, constructed using a minimum of materials and freely altered by residents to meet the needs of daily living. Opinions are perhaps divided as to the scenic value of such machiya, which are of ten shabby in appearance, and how to deal with them. The clients, who had spent year s researching and fostering "outsider art", perhaps discovered aspects reminiscent of outsider art in the machiya of this project. In a district of many machiya, they struck on the idea of buying one of the shabbier ones and renovating it as an art museum. Moved by their enthusiasm and sharp sensibilities, we endeavored to thoroughly rid the building of its iconic machiya elements and improve and enhance those that make a machiya so nice to live in.
Text.- Kumiko Inui.
CREDITS.-
Main architect.- Kumiko Inui.
Consultant.- KAP, EOS plus, ymo.
Contractor.- Takahashi Komuten.
Date.- October 2012.
Surface.- 171 m² (total floor area).
Site.- Kameoka, Kyoto. Japan.
Kumiko Inui. Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1969. Graduated from the Architecture and Planning Course in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1992. Completed a master's course at the School of Architecture, Yale University in 1996. Worked at Jun Aoki and Associates from 1996 to 2000. Established the Office of Inui Kumiko in 2000. Currently serving as an associate professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her important works include the Kataokadai Kindergarten Renovation (2001), Jurgen Lehl Marunouchi (2003), Dior Ginza (2004), Apartment I (2007; recipient of Shin-Kenchiku Prize), Small House H (2009; recipient of Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers Prize), Flower Shop H (2009; recipient of Japan Federation of Architects & Building Engineers Association Prize, and the Good Design Gold Award), and Tasaki Ginza (2010). Her published works include Episodes (INAX, 2008) and Home of Asakusa (Heibonsha, 2011).
Photo by Takashi Kato.