Article source: zhaoyang architects

The home-for-all in Kesennuma is designed and built as a gathering space for a fishing community that severely suffered from the Tsunami in 2011. It is located at Kesennuma’s Oya fishing harbor that serves as a center for the local fishing activities and community life. It’s a shelter in which fishermen can take a rest, a place where the wives would wait for their husbands to return [with the catch] and sometimes a marketplace.

Image Courtesy © Jonathan Leijonhufvud

• Architects: zhaoyang architects
• Project: home for all in kesennuma
• Location: kesennuma, Japan
• Photography: Hisao Suzuki, Jonathan Leijonhufvud
• Local Architect: MasanoriWatase
• Design team: Ruofan Chen, Zhou Wu
• Structural engineering: Hideaki Hamada
• Site Supervision: Takezou Murakoshi
• Client: People of Ohyadistrict in Kesennuma-city, Miyagiprefecture, Japan
• Site area: 419.21m2
• Built area, Total floor area: 93.45m2
• Cost: 100000 euros
• Design phase (beginning and endingmonth, year): Dec. 2012 – Jun. 2013
• Construction phase (beginning and endingmonth, year): Jul. 2013 – Oct. 2013

Materials

• Roof:  galvanizedsteelsheet
• Ceiling: plywood + protectivecoating
• Exteriorwall: concrete + protective coating
• Interiorwall: concrete + protective coating