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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Deguchishoten in Isumi, Japan by kurosawa kawara-ten

 
August 23rd, 2018 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: kurosawa kawara-ten

The renovation project of the old storage of the wholesale liquor shop was built in 1911 in Ohara Isumi Chiba Japan. The shop was abandoned for some years and the storage also since the woman who was the mother of the owner was passed away. The storage was not good condition as some beams collapsing, pillars were eaten by termites or leaning. It was impossible to start using directly.

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

  • Architects: kurosawa kawara-ten
  • Project: Deguchishoten
  • Location: Ohara 7777-3 Isumi Chiba, Japan
  • Photography: Ryosuke Sato
  • Software used: Vectorworks, sketch up
  • Client: Chiba University, Isumi City
  • Lead Architects: Kenichi Kurosawa
  • Project Manager: Yoshie Kato
  • Structural Engineer: Suto Masataka Architectural office
  • Completion Year: 2018

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

And, The local government  which the storage belong to has the problem of increasing abandoned houses. The local government has already been Semi-GENKAI SHURAKU (It means the population of some village is more than half of the people living in the village are over the age of 55.). Japanese local areas are exhausted as the storage before renovated.

In such a situation, Chiba University started the program which aims to remain the graduates in the local area where the university belongs to as workers. In the program, students are needed working and creating there own projects and communicating the local people. The storage are renovated for their foothold.

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

This area’s situation is very much same as other Japanese local areas. If people need a new place to live or business, old buildings are demolished without any thoughts for history or culture. Then they built new buildings by non-contextual synthetic materials and construction methods for mass production. But, it is one of the fundamental problem the homogenization and making less value to collapse local areas. And it is very clear that it is impossible to ignore their identity and the pride for regional revitalization. Therefore, The renovation should be taken with paying maximum respects for the existing old building and their materials and using parts still alive.

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

At first, Making wide opened floor level of east and west side elevations as all doors for getting the openness students need for working and making communication. On the other hand, concentration and getting good distance between the local people, north and south elevation was leave the original walls. For the reinforcement because the openness, steel frames were installed carefully planed as not disturb the atmosphere of the existing building. The floor finish is the concrete of the base slab. Aggregates are laid all over under the eaves, they are made by cracked old roof tiles. And still remaining old corrugates on the exterior walls. These are because preserving the context and atmosphere of this area.

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © Ryosuke Sato

Image Courtesy © kurosawa kawara-ten

Image Courtesy © kurosawa kawara-ten

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