SunnyHills at Minami-Aoyama | Kengo Kuma and associates

This shop, specialized in selling pineapple cake (popular sweet in Taiwan), is in the shape of a bamboo basket. It is built on a joint system called “Jiigoku-Gumi,” traditional method used in Japanese wooden architecture (often observed in Shoji: vertical and cross pieces in the same width are entwined in each other to form a muntin grid). Normally the two pieces intersect in two dimensions, but here they are combined in 30 degrees in 3 dimensions (or in cubic), which came into a structure like a cloud. With this idea, the section size of each wood piece was reduced to as thin as 60mm×60mm. As the building is located in middle of the residential area in Aoyama, we wanted to give some soft and subtle atmosphere to it, which is completely different from a concrete box. We expect that the street and the architecture　could be in good chemistry. [JP] パイナップルハウス 日本の木造建築に伝わる「地獄組み」という名のジョイントシステムを用いて組み上げた、竹カゴ状のパイナップルケーキショップ。通常は2次元で直交する２つの部材を組む時に用いる地獄組みを、このプロジェクトでは、30度の角度を用い、しかも3次元で立体的に組むことによって、厚みのある雲のような構造体を作ることが可能となった。このような立体的システムの採用によって、一つの部材の断面寸法は60ｍｍ×60ｍｍにまで細くすることが可能となった。 　青山の住宅地の中のストリートに面する建築に対して、コンクリートの箱とは異なる、やわらかで繊細な表情を与えることで、ストリートと建築とが化学反応を起こすことを期待した。307字 Architecture Kengo Kuma & Associates Team Member: Kengo Kuma, Kenji Miyahara, Hiroaki Akiyama, Yuteki Dozono, Masahiro Minami Structure Jun Sato Structural Engineering Team Member: Jun Sato, Mika Araki, Kenichi Inoue Facilities Kankyo Engineering Team Member: Kazunari Ooshima, Minako Goto Construction Management Kengo Kuma & Associates Team Member: Kengo Kuma, Hiroaki Akiyama, Yuteki Dozono