| Completed
in the Spring of 1994, Momo-chitaru-kan combines traditional Japanese design
with modern construction methods. There are three newly built buildings
on the site: a traditional 2-story wooden structure in the front and then
two five-story steel-frame structure further back that are finished with
traditional materials. The spaces left between the buildings contain gardens;
the first is carpeted with moss and the second is a tiled bamboo court.
The long narrow alleyway leading to the rear, and the tiny tsubo (pocket)
gardens within the building itself evoke the spatial feeling of old Kyoto.
The first courtyard garden is separated from the alleyway by a serpentine
rammed earth wall, an element used to link traditional with modern. |
