[S.O.Y. LABO. - K.S. Kindergarten - COVER IMG] Inner view of the lunch house under the curve shaped roof. The kitchen is conteined in the box on middle, and the pathway for wagon is leads to the other buildings outside.

K.S. Kindergarten

Firm LocationTokyo, Japan
Project locationChiba, Japan
CompanyS.O.Y. LABO.
Lead ArchitectYuichi-ro Yamanaka

A project to add a new lunch-house to an existing kindergarten. A pair of plain 6m-long timbers set in steel-base-plates and raised into place not facing one another. In order to increase the rigidity, the method of “pulling” is common, but here the strength was obtained by “twisting”. Reconsidering this approach to wood construction made us think that we were “braiding” timber rather than “building” it. The principle of braiding as primitive method, involves load distribution, friction, and tension. It's a modern architecture that intentionally employs the primitive.