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小笠原資料館

飯田市, Japan

小笠原資料館

The Ogasawara Museum (or the O-Museum) is a located in the Shiroyama mountain range of Nagano Prefecture in the center of the Honshu island, Japan. The building was designed by the architecture firm, SANAA, run by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, and constructed between 1995 and 1999. It was one of

the architect-duo's first projects together. The building is situated between the mountain and an old, publicly-accessible shoin or a writing room. The structure assumes a narrow and elongated form because, according to the municipal corporation, it should adhere to the minimum established distance from the shoin. The one storey museum gently curves in alignment with the contours of the topography. The raised floor system, made possible by six square-section pilotis, helps preserve the environment and protect the exhibition space from humidity. The main lobby, positioned between the temporary exhibitions and the permanent college, can be reached through a ramp that emerges from the open public plaza right below the building. The wraparound, silkscreen-printed curtain wall, with the exception of a cut-out in the lobby area that offers a frontal view of the shoin, protects the exhibited...

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