Miyahata Jomon Museum

Miyahata Jomon Museum

Miyahata Jomon Museum


Furuichi and Associates

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Fukushima, Japan

TYPE
Cultural › Museum

A significant period in early Japanese history, the Jomon Period was around the 10th Century BC.

Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum

In this period, people lived a hunter gatherer life in the northeast of Japan, and late Jomon ruins have been excavated in Miyahata, Fukushima Prefecture.

There have been many significant finds and studies related to the Jomon people over the past 20 years.

To accommodate the research, investigation, exhibition and educational needs of these studies, a museum became necessary.

Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum

The site is facing some significant Jomon ruins.

The context is a beautiful natural landscape.

The design has an impressive roof structure with concrete walls and timber roof construction.

Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum

The structures are expressed in the major internal spaces.

In the beginning, the Jomos people lived in caves called grotta.

Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum

Later the Jamon people came out of caves and made villages of circular-plan houses, still keeping and following the image of caves.

To the entrance hall, a covered wooden roof using the imagery of caves was proposed and designed.

Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum

The structure combines wood panels and wooden beams.

Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum


Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum
Miyahata Jomon Museum