Kasai City regional revitalization base facility “sora Kasai” Uzurano Museum

The approximately 1.2km runway remains in Uzurano-cho, Kasai City, belonged to an airfield that was built during the war.
Kasai City's regional revitalization base facility "sora kasai" plays a role as an exchange base for tours of these ruins, and the "quail museum" is the center of the field museum that conveys the historical facts of the war. was given.

The basic plan for the facility was made by a joint venture of three companies, with Ohba Co., Ltd. and displays Sekkei Group Co., Ltd. being involved in the design. After that, I received an order for displays production independently, and the period from planning to completion was about 6 years. Towards the completion, after going through a review committee, Kasai City, local war historians who have been researching for many years, the preservation society, supervising teachers, a full-scale airplane model production company, and many other people. I made it.

This museum, which is built on the runway, introduces the short but rich history of Uzurano Airfield, centering on the displays of two full-scale airplane models that are deeply related to this area. We aimed to create a museum that is unique to Uzurano, making the most of the story and location of this area. It is the mission of this museum to weave together the memories of this land, leave them in a form, and pass them on to future generations.


[Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests]
The challenge was to create an attractive facility that would serve as a hub for field exchanges suitable for the Kasai City Regional Revitalization Facility.
In particular, the role of the museum, which has an displays function, was to make it a place to think about peace by mainly displays displays to Uzurano Airfield and Kasai City. As for the displays method, the emphasis was placed on the content, and the request was to mainly use video technology, but on the other hand, it was also desired to displays actual materials.


【solution】
The biggest attraction of this museum is that the displays space is set up on the runway itself, which is a living witness of history, and the two full-scale airplane models that are the main displays are placed above it. The ``Shiden Kai'', which was assembled and tested, was placed on the runway, and the ``Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft'', which flew off to the special attack, was arranged to fly from the runway to the sky, and the runway, sky, architecture, In a powerful space where the displays is integrated, it is an displays unique to Uzurano that makes use of the story of this place and itself.
The displays consists of two zones, "Technology" and "History", and the spaces are inextricably linked through lattice walls. By approaching the historical fact of war from two perspectives, the aim is to provide an opportunity to think from multiple perspectives.
For the video displays, we planned to create a synergistic effect for understanding by combining it with the material displays. In particular, the "Story Wall" consists of four stories about the history of Uzurano Airfield, and is developed as a series of four images that make use of the oblong space. In addition, four materials linked to those stories were displays, and each of them complemented each other. By learning the background of the materials through the images and adding reality to the images through the materials, we aim to create displays that are more deeply conveyed.
In addition, by directly incorporating the words of the people who lived here in the content, we made the war not only a past event, but also an expression that you can feel.


<Our project members>
[Development] Koichi Morimoto
[Sales and Project Management] Koichi Morimoto
[Planner] Setsuko Nishimura
[design, layout] Tomoyo Tsukiyama
[Production/ construction] Takeshi Suezaki / CIC: Yu Oishi, Satoko Hasegawa