OYAKI FARM BY IROHADO
A place with a life force that unites with nature.A new factory, cafe, and direct sales store were built in the city of Nagano as a new development of the long-established oyaki shop ``Iroha-do'', which has been rooted in Shinshu since the Jomon period."Oyaki" is a baked "food" using vegetables and wheat that has been rooted in Shinshu since the Jomon period in Japan, and this architecture also aims to be a place where "the architecture that was born and returns to the earth" over a long time axis of tens of thousands of years—using lumber produced in the prefecture and surplus soil from construction sites.For the concept, we focused on 1. Memories of the earth. / Genius loci 2. Local natural materials and traditional techniques. 3. Making process: collaboration with design and construction. 4. Uplifting of earth/ A place connected to the earth. 5.?Movement as a Life-living organism: creation, change, growth, and circulation The two circles representing the factory/region and the cafe/society overlap and interlock, while the arc-shaped roof resonates with the surrounding mountains built to meet modern energy efficiency standards in Japan ...