Moku Moku Yu
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Risonare Hotel
129-1, Kobuchisawa-cho, Hokutoshi,
Kobuchizawa
Yamanashi 408-0044
Japan
coordinates:
lat 35.8790054, long 138.3158264
Building names(s): Moku Moku Yu
Architect/Designer: Klein Dytham
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Other Information:
Completion date: 2006
Function:
materials: OUTSIDE/ Wall; Multi striped color wood sidingINSIDE/
Floor; mosaic tiles, carpet
Wall; Multi striped color wood siding, mosaic tiles, PB12.5mm + AEP paint
Ceiling; PB12.5mm double + AEP paint, calcium silicate boad 6mm + OP
getting there:
From Narita International Airport:
70minutes from Narita Airport to Tokyo Station by Narita Express Train.
15minutes from Tokyo Station to Shinjuku Station by JR Chuo Express Train.
120minutes from Shinjuku Station to Kobuchisawa Station by JR Express Train AZUSA.
5mimutes from Kobuchisawa Station to Risonare by Risonare Shuttle Bus.
From Haneda Airport:
20minutes from Haneda Airport Terminal 1 to Hamamatsucho Station by Tokyo Monorail.
25minutes from Hamamatsucho Station to Shinjuku Station by JR Yamanotesen Sotomawari.
120minutes from Shinjuku Station to Kobuchisawa Station by JR Express Train AZUSA.
5minutes from Kobuchisawa Station to Risonare by Risonare Shuttle Bus.
Transition time is not included.
Shuttle Services
Shuttle services are also available from Kobuchisawa Station.
Please contact us for more details.
address details in Japanese:
日本
山梨県北杜市小淵沢町 129-1
Plan
Last modified: 25 July, 2010 | Suggested By LT
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Moku Moku Yu is a timber bathhouse set amidst pine forest at the Risonare resort, site of a number of other KDa interventions.
Communal bathing is an ancient and venerable tradition in Japan. So too is building in wood. Which all makes building a new timber bath-house in Japan a somewhat tricky prospect, especially if you are not Japanese. How to do something that feels right for the ritual, without imitating the usual treatment? How to create something fresh in such well-worked territory?
“Bathing together, in a wooden barrel, under the trees, in the snow!” This was our original image. In this image, we found the answer to the architectural dilemmas – use circles! The resulting bathhouse is a cluster of intersecting circular enclosures, immediately inviting aqueous associations with droplets of water or soap bubbles. More significantly, the interpenetration of spaces serves to blur the usual divisions between inside and outside, and between male and female. Bathers separate by sex at the entrance for undressing and washing, but are able to rejoin again in the outdoor communal bath (konyoku rotenburo). The arcs of interior walls sweep out into the forest as timber screens. On the exterior, vertical strips of stained lath dissolve the outline of the building amidst the vertical trunks of the surrounding pines.
There is something both comforting and tantalizing about these intersecting round rooms. The hierarchy, axis, and orientation of linear plans are replaced by local centres, embracing curves, and a subtle sense of motion. This connects to the meaning of the bathing ritual in Japan. Rather than responding to the linear functionalist thinking of “take bath = get clean”, this bathhouse aims for a series of linked states of being (“undress : wash : soak : relax”).
It is a space of togetherness built from circles of being, rather than along lines of flight.