The peacefullness of Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture is peaceful due to it's links with nature, beautiful and intricate but complex . The ease of entrances such as shoji and transitions between buildings/rooms form a sense sharing and community that you can rarely find in other architectural types.
The Interior
Tatami Matt's and there pattern, each sizing 360 × 180cm:
Partitions:
Something about a joke about being warm in winter and depth, reed faces water for observation
Shoji
Fusuma
https://images.app.goo.gl/VNSJLjCjvFABYYwH7
The larger the width the more expensive the house and Kyoto streets housing is filled with both type of partition. This sense of expansions without an actual expansions form an amazing visual perspective.
Tea Huts are Expensive!
Developed in medieval Japan and 3x the price of a house nowadays, with a spiritual connection being the heart of the architype.
Here's a beautiful plan of one:
With a 60x 60mm door crawling is advised!
The beauty of small space from an even smaller opening forms a special form of expansion and psychological spaciousness with a multitude of ceilings assisting this.
The Okonoma
This is the spiritual part of the room with flowers and and calligraphy, showing the artistic mindset and style within Japanese architecture.
Houses of Jomon (10,000 years ago)
The two types:
1. Pit-type
-Timber for inner support beams for the roof
- Kaya thatched roofs, for draining rainwater into Ditched
2. Circular
- Shallow pit on earthen floor with sturdy posts set deep into the ground for support.
- Made with dry clay or stones
- Range of sizes with thatched roofs ( some raised
A short documentary on the life and background of the Jomon people:
https://youtu.be/IzIyngxiwPQ
What I find particularly fascinating in this documentary is the fact that the Jomon people worked with natural disasters rather than fighting against them like we do In modern day e.g. sea defences. Utilising the world around you rather than destroying it could be a way we combat climate change and lack of materials ( we could mainly use trees that have been previously destroyed in certain areas and details of housing for example).
Houses of the Yayoi period (200BC-250AD)
What are they?
A pit dwelling and an elevated storehouse with shrine and chieftains residences that have close connections of food, sanction and temporal power.
The method:
To form the buildings, the mortise and tenon method was used with ladders carved of a single piece of wood rather than seperate rungs. To prevent rats, Wooden discs were placed within the attached posts and just under the floors and the buildings themselves were architecturally advanced for their time.
The immediate existence of peaceful energy and inside and out both are why I love Japanese architecture. When rushing around working all day and coming home with this sense of relief and calm whilst observing and enveloped in nature. Where even the roofs considered materially and shape wise (they tend to slant closer to the edges as to allow rain water run off and assist the home and the environment it's in. This just scratches the surface on how Id feel when entering a Japanese home and recommend people to research or even visit Japan and percieve for themselves just how wonderful it's architecture truly is.
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