This is a monument for the cycling road called “Okukuji Cycle Route” The planned site has been known since ancient times as a wood-producing area, and we hoped that the building would become a symbol of the “town of wood.”
Global Design & Architecture Design Awards 2025
Third Award | Pop-ups and Temporary(Built)
Project Name:KI
Category: Pop-ups and Temporary(Built)
Studio Name:NAO IWANARI,ARCHITECTURE
Design Team:Nao Iwanari
Area:4m2
Year:2025
Location:Fukushima,Japan
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Photography Credits: Tomonori Okawa
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We hope it will become a medium of communication between visitors and the town, and for that to happen, we thought it was necessary to share the image by abstracting the message of wood.
It was made using offcuts of local cedar as laminated lumber, and was assembled using “mortise and tenon”, a construction method that supports traditional Japanese wooden architecture.
