Site
Location: Wakayama, Japan


Building
Use: Gallery and Museum
Floor Area: 

We create the exhibition space where you can feel and convey the person named “Kumagusu”. While being in the opposition, 
this is the place where you can feel the opened way of life of the next generation worldwide. Thus, this is not like 
an architecture but the same as an exhibition space which grows naturally on Banshoyama and also, self-proliferates while 
searching between dense plants and greenery.

In the planning, we make the actual exhibits with the aspect of being scattered in the dense vegetation. Although being 
a monocoque, it is a system with a possibility to transform into various aspects while being completed from one natural 
order. Being wrapped in this order, Kumagusu’s view of the world unfolds and expands. 

Even though, Kumagusu is a world-class thinker, he is by no means a wanderer. At the time, while living in Japan, 
the quality of life is high-level, he managed to live and adopt the living condition naturally. Also, he maintained 
the same lifestyle even in foreign land. Even if you take one of his belongings, the elegance can be felt. The creation 
of things that are bare to the order of nature does not mean crude but rather refined by the providence of nature.

In this work, we aim to design a place for the naturally occurring exhibition. Rather than designing, we think of the work 
creating that order. It is not an exhibition in a certain architecture; thereafter, we will propose the underlying natural 
order = order that will be understood even in the process of creating an architecture which will be considered separately. 
In addition, technically, the order is securely backed up.

During the construction of the exhibition hall, the spirit and hard work of the local carpenter are needed to complete the 
making of the RC (Reenforced Concrete) slab and column while, the outer wall is being made using a simple method with the 
local energy. This is the order which we propose. The finishing is the cloth formwork and the Kishu timber as it is.