SHORT DESCRIPTION

This project is to regenerate a local village, renowned for rice- and flower-farming but suffering from the aging of population, with new possibilities of life by proposing an experimental cross-cultural facility which has the “cross-space” enabling the interaction between diverse cultures. The project site had been used as a reservoir for rice-farming but some time later passed as a fishing spot. On the site where the life was disappearing, the client intended to build an architectural space that resuscitates the local area through a communicative local culture. Due to the use of the project site as a fishing spot, the topography of rice paddies along the stream remained broken traces. The new architectural space to restore the memories of rice paddies puts a void order on the various spaces organized by intersection of walls like the watercourses in between rice paddies. Over the spaces weaved with walls were laid the outdoor elements featuring trees, pebbles, water, the sky, landscape and the like. The flow of nature from the southern low hill repeats the continuation of rice paddies and a hill with crossing streams, the large and the opposite small ones. The new architectural space to restore this natural flow puts a solid order on the various spaces organized as masses like rice paddies. Over the spaces weaved as masses were laid the outdoor and indoor elements featuring trees, pebbles, water, the sky, landscape and the like. At the intersections between the widthwise and depthwise orders are weaved “cross-spaces.” The cross-space has the possibility of extensions for various programs. It is not a universalized physical space but a differentiated experimental space, which is the meaning of the name “NONSPACE.”