"Home for all" for Rikuzentakata

Today we show a project exposed in the 13th Exhibition Venice Biennal on 2012 as a prototipe, responding to the earthquake in eastern Japan in 2011. In this project worked some architects as Toyo Ito Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata and Sou Fujimoto. The project idea is to create a relationship space to help people affected by happened disasters. Noteworthy is the generosity of these architects.

"Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Photography © Office of Kumiko Inui. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Memory of project

After introducing the various projects in the japanese pavilion of the 2012 venice architecture biennale, the collaborative team of japenese architects including Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, and Akihisa Hirata have built a full-scale prototype of their gathering house concept open to the public in rikuzentakata. In response to the great east japan earthquake of 2011, the group of architects worked together to explore possible future typologies for japanese coastal cities that may be prone to similar events. Using a system of natural wooden columns like pilotis arranged on a regular grid, the volumes are suspended in a three-dimensional matrix like a complex home on stilts with a relationship on both the horizontal and vertical axes of the different layers of the dwelling, sometimes maintaining the orthogonal nature of the foundations while at others exercising the exception. "Home for all" serves as a gathering space for the thousands of people that were left homeless after the devastating natural disaster.

Text.- Kumiko Inui.

CREDITS.-

Main architects.- Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto.
consultant.- Jun Sato Structural.
Contractor.- Shelter.
Date.- November 2012.
Programme.- Community center.
Surface.- 29,96 m² (total floor area).
Site.- Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan.

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Interior view, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Photography © Office of Kumiko Inui. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Site plan, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Ground floor, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

First floor, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Second floor, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Third floor, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Cover plan, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Section, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

Section, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui. n, "Hogar para todos" por Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Cortesía de Office of Kumiko Inui.

Elevation, "Home for all" by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Akihisa Hirata, Sou Fujimoto. Courtesy of Office of Kumiko Inui.

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AKIHISA HIRATA

Akihisa Hirata. Nacido en la Prefectura de Osaka en 1971. Se graduó en el de departamento de Arquitectura en la Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University en 1994. Terminó un máster en la misma universidad en 1997. Después de trabajar en Toyo Ito & Associates, fundó su estudio de arquitectura, Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office en 2005. En la actualidad es profesor asociado designado por la Tohoku University, y profesor a tiempo parcial en Kyoto University, University of Tokyo, and UCLA. Entre los muchos honores que ha recibido se encuentran el SD Review's Asakura Award (2004) y el 19th JIA Newcomer's Award (2008). Sus trabajos importantes incluyen masuya (2005) y alp (2008). Sus trabajos publicados incluyen Contemporary Architect's Concept Series 8: Tangling (INAX, 2011).

KUMIKO INUI

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.

SOU FUJIMOTO

Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan on August 4, 1971. In 1994 he graduated in architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He established his own architecture studio, the agency Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and since 2007 a professor at Kyoto University.

He was first noticed in 2005 when he won the prestigious AR – international Architectural Review Awards in the Young architect’s category, a prize that he garnered for three consecutive years, and the Top Prize in 2006.

In 2008, he was invited to jury these very AR Awards. The same year he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) prize and the highest recognition from the World Architecture Festival, in the Private House section. In 2009, the magazine Wallpaper* accorded him their Design Award.  Sou Fujimoto published “Primitive Future” in 2008, the year’s best-selling architectural text. His architectural design, consistently searching for new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.

Sou Fujimoto became the youngest architect to design the annual summer pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2013, and has won several awards, notably a Golden Lion for the Japan Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and The Wall Street Journal Architecture Innovator Award in 2014.

Photographer: David Vintiner

TOYO. ITO

Toyo Ito was born in 1941. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1965, he worked in the office of Kiyonori Kikutake until 1969. In 1971, he founded his own office Urban Robot (URBOT), which was renamed Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects. Along with architecture projects all around the world, including Japan, Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A., Ito is engaged in a wide range of activities.

His recent works include the Tama Art University Library (Hachioji Campus), the Za-Koenji Public Theatre, and Torres Porta Fira in Spain. Among the many awards he has received are the AIJ Prize for Design, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, the '06 Royal Institute of British Architecture Gold Medal, the Asahi Award, and the Prince Takamatsu World Culture Award.