2.10.2017
Sumida Hokusai Museum
This is a project for a museum of Hokusai Katsushika standing in a small park in Ryogoku Sumida-ward, Tokyo. Ryogoku, the birthplace of Hokusai, has a gridded street pattern with middle to small size buildings are standing.
A requested building volume of the museum was divided into smaller volumes to fit the scale of surrounding buildings. Those smaller volumes merge into one another at a certain floor as a single building, and distance each other at a certain floor as several buildings. The building has a closed enclosure in order to preserve Ukiyoe painting, however has an open relationship to the outside through the slits in between the volumes. The program consists with regular and special exhibition space, storage space, and in addition, multipurpose hall, café, library and so on. The friendly scenery of surrounding townscape will reflect onto the electro polishing aluminum façade of the building.