HIROSHI NAITO

MAKINO MUSEUM OF PLANTS AND PEOPLE

1999

STRUCTURECONTEXTQUALITATIVE

QUANTITATIVE

MATERIALITY

ELEMENTSSITE

HISTORY

EMOTION

PROGRAM

HISTORYQUALITATIVE

DR. TOMITARO MAKINO“FATHER OF JAPANESE BOTANY’

RESEARCH

MUSEUM

ADMIN

“A BUILDING THAT WOULD BECOME ONE WITH THIS ABUNDANT LANDSCAPE”

QUALITATIVE EMOTION

EMOTIONQUALITATIVE

“DAMP FALLEN LEAVES REPRESENT AT STATE OF ORGANIC LIFE ON THE VERGE OF DECOMPOSING AND RETURNING TO NATURE..A STATE OF HUGGING TH E GROUND. TAKING MY INTUITED GLIMPSE OF THEIR BEAUTY AS MY POINT OF DEPARTURE, I BEGAN TO GROPE TOWARD THE FIGURE OF THE BUILDING.’

EMOTIONQUALITATIVE

“THE BUILDING WILL BE BURIED IN THE FOREST, LEAVING ONLY ITS CENTRAL COURT AND INTERIOR SPACES, ENCOMPASSED BY ROOF.”

MATERIALITYQUANTITATIVE

KOCHI PERFECTUREMAJOR JAPANESE

TIMBER-PRODUCING REGION

WOOD CONSTRUCTION

ELEMENTSQUANTITATIVE

SITEFREQUENT TYPHOONS

MOUNTAIN RIDGE

MUSEUM

RESEARCH + ADMIN

NEGATIVE PRESSURE WIND LOAD OF OVER ONE TON PER SQUARE METER OVER PARTS OF THE ROOF

CHALLENGELIGHT BUILDING OF WOO CONSTRUCTION ON A MOUNTAIN RIDGE EXPOSED TO STRONG WINDS + RAINS

SOLUTION | BUILDING FORM> LOW-LEVEL BUILDING ARRANGEMENT DONE IN ORDER TO LIMIT IMPACT ON LOCAL WIND AND LIMIT LOADS ON STRUCTURE

> TREES AND PLANTS PLANTED FOR ADDED PROTECTION FROM WIND

422 LAMINATED BEAMS CONNECTED AT THE RIDGE BY CAST METAL JOINTS WHICH ALLOW FOR VARIATIONS IN ANGLE.

STRUCTURE | ROOF

COMPLEX GEOMETRY MEANT THAT EACH BEAM IS DIFFERNET

UNIQURE DIMENSIONS AND FORMS ARE RESULTED FROM DIGITAL TESTING AGAINST CLIMATE.

STRUCTURE | ROOF

STRUCTURE | ROOF

WIND TUNNEL TEST: SIMULATING THE EFFECT OF A SEVER TYPHOON - EXTERTING A PRESSURE OF OVER A TON PER SQUARE METER ON PARTS OF THE ROOF AND TRUSSES AJUSTED ACCORDING.

ROOFS ARE TYPHOON PROOF WITH LAMINATED PANELS OF ZINC AND STAINLESS STEEL , GUTTERS WERE DEVISED BETWEEN EACH PANEL

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LAURA. “MAKINO MUSEUM OF PLANTS AND PEOPLE.” LAURA’S ARCH 610 BLOG, BLOGSPOT.COM, LAURABLOSSER.BLOGSPOT.COM/. ACCESSED 1 MAR. 2017.

MUSEUM SECTIONS. BBSC303.ARCH.SCHOOL.NZ/BLOG/UPLOADED_IMAGES/3D-722065.JPG. ACCESSED 1 MAR. 2017.

"MAKINO MUSEUM OF PLANTS / HIROSHI NAITO," IN ARCHEYES, JANUARY 15, 2016, HTTP://ARCHEYES.COM/MAKINO-MUSEUM-PLANTS-HIROSHI-NAITO/.

NAITO, HIROSHI. INNERSCAPE. BIRHAUSER PUBLISHING, 2006. MARK MCLEOD DIGITAL CRAFT, BBSC303.ARCH.SCHOOL.NZ/MARK_MCLEOD/SITE/MUSE-UM/THEBUILD.HTML. ACCESSED 1 MAR. 2017.