Ippei Takahashi (TAKAHASHI IPPEI OFFICE)

This place is located beside the large lake, about two hours away from Tokyo. It is undertook to reconstruct the abandoned museum into a new public place for people to consider the future relationship between humans and nature. Now we live in an era known as the Anthropocene, where the earth is overflowing with artificial objects. Our attempt here is to reorganize them and return them to nature. I tried to dismantle the world that humans once built, allowing nature - light, wind, rain, and greenery - and animals to move in. While modernity has distanced humans from nature through rational approaches, I bring the two as close together as possible here. With all forms of architectural activities here, I create a new concept: “architecture as environment”, rather than the human-centered construction of “space” that continued into the modern era.