Stone Museum

Abstract

This project aimed at restoring the three traditional Japanese storehouses on the site. The program for the new museum of stone arts and crafts called for the reuse of these separate old stone structures, which were to be unified into a joint complex by the introduction of new spaces and passageways. The new structures, made up of two types of lightweight walls built of the same stone that was used for the existing buildings, also accomplished a spatial unification between the interior spaces and the immediate environment.