The building is a nested structure of rooms and earthen floors, with an atrium planted with a striped ash tree in the center. The interior environment of light and heat is created by the overlapping structure of the outer wall, inner earthen floor, and inner wall and the rooms. The structure is a semi-rigid jointed structure with triangular OSB plate frames arranged at a pitch of 1,820mm, and the word "NAVI STRUCT" was coined to indicate a wooden ramen structure that resembles the bottom of a ship turned inside out.

Japan | Nara

Jutakutokushu August 2013 issue 142P