Masashi Keino (ATELIER KEINO SHOJI ARCHITECTS)

This is base facility of regional activation project.
The 80-year-old Oya stone warehouse was renovated and converted into the project’ s epicenter, with a local specialty shops, hotel, and bakery. The warehouse that is remembered as the co-op facility before its moving out is an essential industrial heritage that reflects the area’ s history, and is a place to embrace the residents' nostalgia. Thus the renovation was limited to utilizing the existing structure adding a few necessary elements. As masonry does not meet the structural requirements of the current standards, a steel structure was adopted by inserting a frame into the existing masonry. Oya stone became exterior cladding from a structural element.