cup of tea ensemble

cup of tea ensemble

cup of tea ensemble

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近代化により消失された地域の固有性を、次代に向け再構築するため、建築に何ができるかを考えました。土着を表すバナキュラーを最短距離で実現可能なスケールへと細分化したものを「ミクロバナキュラー」と呼び、環境や社会の循環から構築できる建築を目指しました。その建築行為を「あるものをいかす」とし、地域が豊富に有す森と共に生きる文化に接続することで、最短距離での資源循環を空間に落とし込んでいます。
以下に挙げる価値を脱成長社会の中の合理性「ミクロバナキュラー」として再評価することで必然的に浮かび上がってきたものを地域の固有性をもつ空間として再構築しています。
・短小径木で内装・構造材に不向きな杉材を、建具と家具材として建築化
・家具・建材に使えない細い枝を活用した照明、広葉樹間伐材をスライスし、天板として乗せるだけのダイニングテーブルを開発
・製材時の端材でコーヒーテーブルを製作
・中古家具をリペアして再利用

We commenced to think about the possibility in architecture and reconstruct its composition as small units of objects which already exist in the surrounding area in order to rebuild the uniqueness of the region where modernism has been homogenized toward the next generation.
The indigenous vernacular is subdivided into a scale that can be realized in the shortest distance which we call "micro-vernacular ". We aim to create a new form of architecture that can be built from the environment and social circulation successfully incorporated into the larger framework of social systems such as economy and law.
Defining the activity of construction as "revive objects", we placed the circulation at the closest distance into the space by connecting with a culture which coexists with abundant forest resources.
We have reconstructed the values, which have been left behind in capitalism society, as a space with regional uniqueness of what has inevitably emerged by re-evaluating as "micro-vernacular" - the rationality in a degrowth society

- Transform Sugi cedar wood which has a short with a small diameter and is not suitable for interior and structural materials, into fittings and furniture.
- Utilize thin branches that are used neither for furniture nor building materials, in order to produce lighting product
- Made a dining table on which a top plate made by slicing thinned hardwood
- Made a coffee table out of the off-cuts from the furniture production process
- Repair and reuse second-hand furniture

cup of tea ensembleは年間約400万人が訪れる観光地として栄え、世界遺産の白川郷や古い街並みがある飛騨高山の小さなホテルです。ここでは従来の史実を辿る観光とも共存しながら、飛騨高山が次の100年に繋げる生きた地域価値の起点を作る、未来を育む文化を生成する拠点としてのホテルのあり方を追求しました。

【面積の9割を森林が占める飛騨高山】
森林資源が圧倒的に豊富な飛騨高山においても、その樹木のほとんどが大規模に植林された杉などの針葉樹であることが実情です。この広大な森林を資源と捉え次の時代へと繋ぐ豊かな森を育むには、持続性のない計画のもと植林された杉を利活用する術を見つける他ありません。また、間伐という行為を、森林の維持育成に留まらずその利用を促し産業化しそれを発信することと、長期的な視野の元に健全な森に変えていくことこそ、森林の割合が日本一である飛騨地域の使命であり価値であると考えました。
cup of tea ensembleでは、「あるものをいかす」をコンセプトに「あるものをいかす」をコンセプトに、杉間伐材、広葉樹間伐材、端材、中古品リペアの切り口で地域内資源の新たな活用可能性を提案しました。

【杉間伐材】
急斜面での間伐作業のため運搬しやすく約２ｍに切られる間伐材。そのために建材としては不向きな杉間伐材に対し「丸太組構法」を応用し、長尺のビスで小断面の木材を一体化した「積層パネル構法」を採用し短小径木である杉間伐材の建材化を試みています。強度にバラツキがある不安定で短小な杉材を積層・連結し総体として冗長性を高めつつ大型化でき、家具や建具への活用に成功しました。また各材の継ぎ目の感覚を調整し空洞をもうけることで、変化する光の入り込む隙間と空間に奥行きをつくりだしました。一連の造作作業は特殊な技術が不要な構法となったため、間伐から施工までの工程に多くの方が参加することを可能にしました。

【広葉樹間伐材】
こちらが選ぶのではなく、必要に応じて間伐された材をどう価値転換するか、を考え、樹木の魅力をそのままいかす梢照明・伐採から始めたダイニングテーブルを開発しました。
それぞれ樹種が異なる梢照明は、幹そのものの姿・形、樹皮のテクスチャーを活かしてデザインされ、家具職人が溝を切りLEDを埋め 込み照明に仕立て上げました。
メンバーが間伐作業に同行した際に採取した朴の木を利用し、木肌 表面のカーブを天板にそのまま生かし曲線を組み合わせ、生き生きとした樹木の魅力とその天板を乗せるだけの構造のテーブルです。

【端材・中古品リペア】
1本の丸太から家具建材として利用される材は25%程であり、残りは 材を乾燥させる際の燃料になります。端材を円筒状に束ねたコーヒー テーブルはワークショップを行い1台1台束ねて製作しました。
1階コミュニティラウンジに配置される 8脚のダイニングチェアのうち4脚は、かつて飛驒産業で販売していた 「マッキンレー」の中古品を修理して再生されました。岐阜県山県市 の柿渋で再塗装され、色合いの経年変化を楽しむことができます。

cup of tea ensemble is a small hotel located in Hida Takayama, a flourishing tourist destination
where approximately 4 million people visit annually and is home to the world heritage site of Shirakawa-go and preserved old-town from Edo-period.
While coexisting with conventional tourism that traces historical sites, we pursued the ideal hotel as a foundation for generating regional values that will contribute to the local culture for the next hundred years in Hida Takayama.

[Takayama with approximately 90% of land is forest ]
Even in Hida Takayama, where forest resources are overwhelmingly abundant, most of the trees are conifers such as Sugi cedar that have been planted on a large scale.
In order to nurture this rich forest as a resource and to pass on to the next generation, there is no other way unless we find a more productive use of Sugi cedar planted under unsustainable plans.
To consider that thinning is not only for maintaining and nurturing the forest but promoting, industrializing and disseminating its use, and therefore changing it into a healthy forest under a long-term perspective.
We believe that this is the mission as well as the value of the Hida region which has the highest proportion of forests within Japan.

[Sugi Cedar]
Thinned wood is cut in approximately two meter-pieces for easy transportation during thinnning work on steep slopes, which is typical land condition in Japanese mountains.
Therefore, we applied the "log assembly method" to thinned Sugi cedar which is not suitable as a building material, and adopted "laminated panel construction method" that integrates with a small cross section by using long screws, in order to utilize thineed Sugi cedar of short and small diameter.
To create a larger size of materials by laminating and connecting short Sugi cedar which is unstable and not of even strength, as well as enhancing redundancy as a whole, it has been successfully utilized for furniture and fittings.
It also allows to create depth in between spaces where the light rays change by adjusting the space of the linear seams of each material.
In addition, since its construction method does not require any special technology, it became possible for many people to participate in the process from thinning to construction.

[Hardwood Thinnings]
We have developed a treetop lighting and dining table that brings out the best of the trees by considering how to transform the value of thinned wood as needed, rather than selecting it ourselves.
Each of the treetop lights, which are made of different species of trees, was designed to take advantage of the shape and form of the trunk itself and the texture of the bark, and the furniture craftsmen cut grooves and embedded LEDs to create the lights.
The dining table is made of magnolia wood that the project members collected during their tree-thinning activities, and the curves of the wood surface are used for the top panel.

[Scrap Wood and Used Items]
From a single log, only about 25% of the wood is used for furniture making, and the rest is used as fuel for drying the wood. The rest is used as fuel for drying the lumber. The coffee tables made of bundled scrap lumber in a cylindrical shape were made by bundling each unit in a workshop.
Four of the eight dining chairs in the community lounge on the first floor were repaired from used "McKinley" chairs that were once sold by Hida-Sangyo. The chairs have been repainted with persimmon tannin from Yamagata City, Gifu Prefecture, and the color changes over time can be enjoyed.

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