DETAIL Preis 2014

This project is a plan of the road station which is located in Kuroshio town, south west part of Japan. the road station is featured by "the straw baking beat of a bonito" as the main food. This plan is the road station of the great desire for local completed through the time of 29 years from the concept. The design started by having been selected by the open proposal by the town. The design which drew the intention of the committee which consists of a local commerce-and-industry meeting, various associations, an operator, etc. was called for after selection. As a result, the design which imagined the "fisherman hut" by a wooden truss was done.
The wooden three-dimensional truss was adopted as the technique of building three big use space, food court, and the shop space, eaves space which were needed for the road station. The main portions consist of 2730-mm cube grids of two layers. The three-dimensional truss of the upper levels makes a non-pillar space and is directing one space. Furthermore, it is a natural ventilation zone there and it has made comfortable internal environment. A wooden three-dimensional truss floats to interior space like the forest of the complicated trees, and when night comes, the silhouette will appear outside.
Kuroshio town faces the Pacific Ocean and has the climate where the solar radiation of summer is strong, and it is rainy and windy. It needed to design, while considering those conditions. Therefore, the axis line was taken from east and west, and it was considered as the design closed to on the south. And the lighting stable by designing a facade and windows in the north side, and it was considered as the arrangement which can make comfortable environment.