Okinawa 10th Workshop in Nakijin : Workshop : Activity : NPO YOUKEI DESIGN ORGANIZATION

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Okinawa : 10th Workshop in Nakijin

- Restoration of architecture with the architect -

Date	Summer, 2003
Location	Okinawa Prefecture Nakijin Community Center
Lecturer	Architect : Kinya MARUYAMA
Paticipants	15 students


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Ths workshop, started in 1993, is for repair wooden pergola and plants at the beginning. Soon the participants come to study about relation between plant and architecture, vernacular culture, the climate and architecture, local material and life.

So we create the material actually, and we attempt to repair the architecture by using it. The participants learn vernacular sense, the way to repair the architecture from a long time ago, and the way to design a plan with the idea of repair.


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The restoration

The participants restore the roof of the community center.

Creation of quick lime

The plaster master create quick lime which is the stuff of plaster.

The restoration of plants

The participants repair the pergola that covers whole roof of the community center.

The improvement of soil

This time there is not only the workshop of the restoration of the pergola but a workshop of soil that the participants make tea house of soil. In this picture, the participants smear the soil that is made in this workshop on the wall of the tea house.

The visitation of Community Center

The participants visit the Nakijin Community center with Kinya MARUYAMA who is not only a lecturer of this workshop but designer of the Nakijin Community Center.

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