Yashima Mountaintop Park

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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YASHIMA MOUNTAINTOP PARK

SUO + Style-A

ARCHITECTS
SUO, Style-A

CLIENT
Takamatsu City

CONSTRUCTION
Taniguchi + Yabuuchi JV

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 
SSC

ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 
P.T. Morimura & Associates

LIGHTING DESIGN 
Kilt Planning Office, Shozo Toyohisa

QUANTITY SURVEYORS 
Futaba Quantity Surveyors

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT 
Takashi Suo (SUO)

DESIGN TEAM 
Takuya Sone (SUO), Yoji Komai (Style-A)

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER 
Mutsuro Sasaki, Yoshiyuki Hiraiwa, Nobuyuki Takimoto (SSC)

FURNITURE DESIGN 
Takashi Suo

ADVISOR OF CONSTRUCTION
Ikumi Toyota 

AREA 
1178 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Takamatsu ,Japan

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Parkinstallations & Structures, Park

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park project is located on the mountain called Yashima which is a national landmark and a natural treasure in the Setonaikai National Park.

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park
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This project was initiated to revitalize the entire mountain-top area and this mountain-top park is designed to actualize and maximize its potential.

There used to be many buildings for sightseers, but many buildings had been demolished as they fell into disrepair as fewer sightseers came.

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Because of the strict regulations in this nationally preserved area, it’s not allowed to make new buildings easily without going through a difficult permit process. So the area is in the process of returning to nature.

In such an area, we planned this long building as a part of the park following the shapes and various levels of the site so that it flows in and out of the many different spaces that the site has in order to actualize its potential.

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park
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As such, the three-dimensional path building touches the ground and then jumps up according to the character of the space and its function.

There will be seven small open spaces on the ground determining the shape of the building to make one big park. People don’t enter a building but a large open space walking through under the elevated part of the building.

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park
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As people walk around the building, people will experience places like the viewing point, floating cafe in the trees, event space, and exhibition spaces.

In this project, we designed this building as a part of the terrain to be a forward-looking architecture that can naturally be part of its environment. We hope that we have found beauty in the continuity of the architecture and the environment.

Yashima Mountaintop Park
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Yashima Mountaintop Park
Elevation
Yashima Mountaintop Park
Section


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Yashima Mountaintop Park
Garden Sketch


Yashima Mountaintop Park
Plan - 1st Floor

Yashima Mountaintop Park
Plan - 2nd Floor