KOKAGE GUMO

PAVILION
JUNYA ISHIGAMI AND ASSOCIATES

LOCATION : TOKYO, JAPAN

VARSHA KUMARAVEL

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CONCEPT
The idea was that the new sunshade
would blend in with the historic
landscape with an inherent sense of
antiquity from the start, despite it being
newly built. More specifically, wooden
pillars and roofs were planned to cover
the entire garden, then the structure
was charred using the technique of
yakisugi (burned cedar).
 By controlling the amount of heat, the surface of the
The surrounding high-rise buildings that were nonexistent in the early Showa
cedar is carbonized and in some places the structure
era, hidden away by the black structure, while countless holes in the structure
itself is charred. As it is burned, the wooden structure
blend with the sunlight filtering through the trees. Slices of modern landscape
that spreads out in the garden is flexibly shaped to
showing through the trees disappear, the strong summer sunlight softens; and
avoid the old trees growing in the existing garden.
visitors spend their moments with the old-time that flows in this garden. The
Charred by the flames, the pitch-black structure is
pitch-black structure is a cool shadow floating among the old trees on a
reminiscent of a ruin. As if dashing through time and
summer afternoon.
transformed from a new building to a ruin instantly, it

seems to have acquired at once all the changes that

architecture can undergo over time.

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