tomihiro
An
avalanche falls down the mountain covering the existing building of the museum.
The original topography is reconstructed creating a new landscape, a new park
for Azuma Village. We preserve the first floor of the actual museum and cover
it with a new wooden skin. This construction will house the administrative,
storage and investigative facilities.
Towards
the road we project a public street, enclosed in a prism that slowly penetrates
the soil, which gives access to the museum spaces in one continuous floor.
It is a new place of encounter for the people of Azuma Village and its visitors,
capable of generating activities around the clock.
This
space is an atrium, functions as a foyer, in which concerts, performances,
film projections and a wide range of events take place. It also organizes
the services, coatroom, information, shop, cafeteria and ticket vending areas
and provides access to the exhibition spaces.
The
visitor slowly discovers an underground world, which unveils the work of Tomihiro
Hoshino.
The
shiga room is a space in which the visitor is introduced to Tomihiro’s
world. It provides an encounter with his unique vocation of creatively combining
poetry and water color paintings. We also learn from the influence that the
scenery around Azuma Village had on his work.
The experience of the new museum does not restrict it self to exhibition areas
but it pervades to the natural setting.
