DFA Awards 2008
设计大奖--
藤屋旅馆
By creating stimulus responses are conjured. It certainly seems an easy, straightforward proposition. For Kengo Kuma the path he adopted in reconfiguring the 100-year old Ginzan Onsen Fujiya would be anything but straightforward. Anyone familiar with the onsen (hot spring hotel) will promptly note its synonymy to unwavering veneration of traditional Japan. Consequently, breaking ranks from strict preservationist attitudes is often shunned, and rarely attempted. Kum
a, unfazed, chose a conscientious strategy of contemporary interpretation for revision of the traditional colours, textures, shapes, and materials associated with onsen design.
While perpetuating a subdued awareness of character and tradition, Ginzan Onsen Fujiya is at once radical and groundbreaking. In the strictest sense, it is a poetic exemplar of how we can look to the past to build for today and tomorrow.
Upon entry, important first impressions delivered by the atrium is a stimulating mixture of reactions. The space is an invigorating two story void of glass and wood. Intriguingly minimalist, its spatial character predicates a modernist reading of traditional wood-inspired interiors. Geometry and lines are a further abstraction-slash-reduction of hereditary practises, while furnishings are a sensible assortment of modern tables, chairs and sofas purpose-designed with a profoundly Zen-like simplicity of form and material. Traditionally, layering of space is achieved via the use of screens. Kuma follows this by hiding and revealing space using inventively made veil-like walls – one is constructed of 1.2 million four-millimetre wide bamboo pieces.