Iiyama Plaza (on going)
Iiyama city, Nagano
to be completed 2015.2
cultural comprex
4,000m2
The town of Iiyama is located in Nagano prefecture, whose Japan Railway station lies on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line, scheduled to run from the end of 2014. The project is a cultural complex of two halls and a community center.
Publicly-funded cultural centers tend to be alienated from the rest of the town for their typically large volumes. Here instead, we designed the complex to be as open as possible toward the town and the landscape of Iiyama, so that all would exist in harmony. The three spaces are scattered in the site as separate, independent buildings, while providing a roofed street called “Nakamichi (central path)” in the gaps. Nakamichi is open towards many directions and could be a passage to seamlessly connect activities between the town and Iiyama Plaza. The big hall can vary into different forms according to users’ purposes – from a pit-typed auditorium to a terraced seating theater (using roll-back seating). The large opening of this hall can also be open as part of Nakamichi.
Mass and high-speed transport by Shinkansen gives significant impact on the hosting town’s community and economy. Given this timing, we would like to see the architecture encourage a revival of the streets and gathering places for people, and to connect them firmly to the ground.
（仮称）飯山ぷらざ
長野県飯山市
2015.2竣工予定
文化ホール
4,000m2
2014年度末に開業予定の北陸新幹線飯山駅の駅前に計画された文化ホールと交流施設複合体。
大きなヴォリューム、大きな「異物」となりがちなホールを、町に対して開き、飯山の自然環境に融合させようと試みた。大小２つのホールと交流機能をつなげずに、独立した建築として敷地にばらまき、そのスキマにナカミチと名づけた屋根つきのストリート空間を通した。ナカミチは多方向に開くことで、新しい賑わいを町に与え、町と公共建築がシームレスにつながる状態をめざした。大ホールは劇場形式から平土間形式まで様々な空間形式をとることが可能である。ナカミチに面する大きな開口を開けば、大ホールもナカミチの一部となる。
新幹線による高速大量輸送は、地域社会・経済に大きなインパクトを与える。そのときにこそ、町に人間の歩く道、人間の集まる場所を復活させて、大地と人間とをつなぎとめるような建築をめざした。