Kiyosato Villa Gallery, Japanese Exhibition Space Design, Container Building, Architecture Images
Gallery in Kiyosato Villa With Exhibition Space
C.S.S. – Container Structure System Building in Japan ? design by Satoshi Okada Architects
4 Sep 2017
Kiyosato Villa Gallery / Exhibition Space
Location: Kiyosato, Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan
Architect: Satoshi Okada Architects
Gallery in Kiyosato Villa With Exhibition Space
Architecture needs to mould itself onto fluctuating social demands, such as the present demographic trends and the decrease of population Japan as elsewhere in the world. The architect is thus inspired to pursue flexibility through innovative structural systems, like the Container Structure System here applied: this is our response to dynamic society of nowadays.
A newly conceived structural system, named Container Structure System, bears the loads of the gallery: it consists of a ship-shaped core in which small spaces encased. This monocoque is realized with inexpensive timber members and veneer panels and assembled with a software. The outcome is a solid and easily expandable shell. Due to its intrinsic dynamism, this system has been further applied in a later project (Agri-Community Center in Shiga) and praised with several prizes and publications.

The first imagery came from the landscape of Kiyosato: the site is located in a coniferous forest, densely vegetated, whose trees stripe and fragment the view in every direction. The building shall therefor...