Towada
Towada
Kengo Kuma and Associates
TYPE
Cultural › Cultural Center, Educational › Nursery, Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
PHOTO
Kenta Hasegawa (18)
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
This wooden building was constructed as the city’s community center for people to gather.
We repeated the roofs for the façade so that it could merge into the neighboring townscape of small houses.
On the exterior wall, wainscot panels are applied with spaces in between, and it expresses a warm and friendly face to the street of the land to the north.
The street in front of the building actually extends into the interior, and is given the name “Michi-no-Hiroba (plaza for the street),” around which a children’s playroom, cooking studio and tatami room are arranged.
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Kengo Kuma & Associates
2 Chome-24-8 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062, Japan