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Kihoku Astronomical Museum
Kihoku Astronomical Museum
Kanoya, Japan
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Kihoku Astronomical Museum
Kanoya, Japan
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
1995
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The Kihoku Astronomical Museum stands at Kihoku-cho, a town of approximately 4800 inhabitants. Kihoku-cho has experienced problems because of a large emigration of people; a great proportion of its residences are seniors.
But the natural environment of this town is very beautiful. It lies in the mountains, and has received an award for “the most beautifl nitgh skies of Japan in summer and winter” in the Nationwide Continuous Observatory Contest organized by Japan’s Environmental Agency. The essential theme of this project is to give new life to the town by addressing the beautiful night skies.
The site of the Kihoku Astronomical Museum is in the Kihoku Uwaba Park. At 550 meters sea level, the place offers views of Sakurajima Island, a living volcano, and Kinko Bay to the west, Miyakonojo Basin to the east, Kirishima Mountains to the north, and Shibushi Bay to the south. Such beautiful scenes fascinated me, and I strongly felt that this site was the most suitable place to communicate with the museum. Architecture lives together with its site - here both that of the land and that of space. The crystalized geometry of the area is reflected in the museum.
The people pf Kihoku-cho enjoy communicating with the architecture and with the cosmos as framed by the architecture. Because the museum has received media coverage and a large number of visitors, the people of Kihoku-cho are experiencing sensations that they have not felt before. It is a great pleasure, as an architect, to be able to contribute to the life of the local society of this town, as well as to create architecture that will be at the centre of a local society. I felt the social role of architecture much deeper when I met the existing situation of Khoku-cho through the Kihoku Astronomical Museum. At its place of construction, architecture can be a living body that shows the power of its pleasure when it has been created with the joy.
But the natural environment of this town is very beautiful. It lies in the mountains, and has received an award for “the most beautifl nitgh skies of Japan in summer and winter” in the Nationwide Continuous Observatory Contest organized by Japan’s Environmental Agency. The essential theme of this project is to give new life to the town by addressing the beautiful night skies.
The site of the Kihoku Astronomical Museum is in the Kihoku Uwaba Park. At 550 meters sea level, the place offers views of Sakurajima Island, a living volcano, and Kinko Bay to the west, Miyakonojo Basin to the east, Kirishima Mountains to the north, and Shibushi Bay to the south. Such beautiful scenes fascinated me, and I strongly felt that this site was the most suitable place to communicate with the museum. Architecture lives together with its site - here both that of the land and that of space. The crystalized geometry of the area is reflected in the museum.
The people pf Kihoku-cho enjoy communicating with the architecture and with the cosmos as framed by the architecture. Because the museum has received media coverage and a large number of visitors, the people of Kihoku-cho are experiencing sensations that they have not felt before. It is a great pleasure, as an architect, to be able to contribute to the life of the local society of this town, as well as to create architecture that will be at the centre of a local society. I felt the social role of architecture much deeper when I met the existing situation of Khoku-cho through the Kihoku Astronomical Museum. At its place of construction, architecture can be a living body that shows the power of its pleasure when it has been created with the joy.
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