This project reflects the essence of Machiya, a Japanese traditional townhouse. Inui Kumiko designed the renovation of the existing volume on a street marked by a marginal context with numerous machiyas, which has a landscape value questioned, increasing the difficulty of generating a coherent and interesting space, according to Japanese constructive character.

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.

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Kumiko Inui. Nacida en la Prefectura de Osaka en 1969. Graduada en Arquitectura y Planeamiento en la Faculty of Fine Arts en la Tokyo National University. Terminó un máster en el School of Architecture, Yale University en 1996. Trabajó en Jun Aoki and Associates desde 1996 a 2000. Fundó Office of Inui Kumiko en 2000. Actualmente desempeña el cargo de profesora asociada en Tokyo University of the Arts. Sus trabajos importantes incluyen la renovación de la Kindergarten Kataokadai (2001), Jurgen Lehl Marunouchi (2003), Dior Ginza (2004), Apartment I (galardonado con el Shin-Kenchiku Prize en 2007), Small House H (galardonada con el Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers Prize en 2009), Flower Shop H (galardonada con el Japan Federation of Architects & Building Engineers Association Prize y el Good Design Gold Award en 2009) y Tasaki Ginza (2010). Sus trabajos publicados incluyen Episodios (INAX, 2008) y Home of Asakusa (Heibonsha, 2011).

Fotografía por Takashi Kato.

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