The area near the Hoshoin was once prospered as a post town on the Nikko Highway (Sugitosyuku), but now the vigor as it used to be can’t be seen. Furthermore, the town now has problems such as depopulation and thinning of the borderline relationship. Temples, which were originally the core of the local community, are losing their affiliation due to the businessization of ceremonial occasions and the loss of their religious views. Under these circumstances, we will create an open hall that is easy to visit, yet feel religious, and will visualize the roles and activities in the town where the temple can take charge, and the local residents will gather, fostering exchanges, We aimed at the way of the modern religious institution as a base.
As a result of changes in usage as the times change, the planned site becomes an excessively large parking lot, dividing the grounds from the town and becoming a place that does not make you feel religious. Therefore, by arranging the volume of Kannnondo to spin on the relationship with the indigenous objects such as coral, stone pillars and monuments that were left behind and scattered on the site, the approach will be revived, and the parking lot will be divided on the highway side, And redefined the worship space from the highway to the existing ground. By adjusting the volume, the size of the roof, the combination, and the layout, when you walk the approach, you can see the gate, the main hall, and the Fudo hall in the existing ground and make it a worship space that continues naturally with the existing ground.
The large rim-like hall facing the courtyard is unity with the courtyard with a large opening that does not drop even a single pillar, making it visible as it becomes a receptacle for various activities of temples and areas. The gable roof of the temple is an image of a tree-like structure, such as a back light, because The gable roof of the temple is reminiscent of Buddha's enlightenment under the linden tree, and the structure is reminiscent of the landscape that the back light shines. By putting the ridges on both sides offset from the outline of the building, the quiet light is dropped from among them in the inside, and the feeling of oppression is reduced in the outside. And from the wife's side, it appears to cut off the 400-year-old Fudo-do, and it also creates continuity to the existing grounds inside.
At the same time, in addition to religious activities, voluntary events by local residents are held daily in the hall while the Kannon are watching. By superimposing new values on building types that tend to be caught up in fixed ideas of religious facilities, it induces usage that is different from before, and from this new next values are born and overlapped again, leading to the future I hope to go ahead.
