Shitara-cho Okumikawa Folk Museum

The Shitara Town Okumikawa Folk Museum, nurtured in the rich nature of the mountains of Aichi Prefecture, inherited the message of the old museum, "to convey the life and spirit of our hometown. The museum is located in the newly built Roadside Station Shirara, and has been renewed as a core facility for community development. It fills the displays space with numerous valuable materials, local treasures collected since the Taisho era. The displays space, with its easily renewable latticework made of Shitara-cho cypress wood latticework as modules, can be used as a unique spatial infrastructure for the region for years to come.
Visitors can trace the diversity of life, archaeology, and history through the rich forest scene, and learn about the wisdom of life passed down from generation to generation, surrounded by a rich collection of folklore. The project aims to create awareness of sustainable lifestyles by creating and expressing a relationship between the creator and the user that will lead to changes in behavior and consciousness.


Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests
(1) Creation of a facility by expanding the use of lumber produced in Shitara Town, as specified in the town's comprehensive plan and reforestation plan.
2）An environment with tens of thousands of inherited materials displays and a well-developed displays environment in response to the aging of the old hometown hall
3) Located at the southern gateway, guiding visitors to the northern part of the city and the region's resources, and revitalizing the museum as a field museum
4) Reuse of handmade items from the old hometown hall displays and visualization of the spirit of "unity" that has been passed down from generation to generation.
5) Creation of a video archive of local resources, including the nationally-designated important intangible folk cultural asset "Dengaku Tamamine".


Solution
The Okumikawa Folk Museum's displays room, in line with Shitara-cho's guidelines, is constructed of locally procured Shitara-cho cypress wood, processed into a latticework and set up. displays The folklore materials are a collection of folk tools made from wood from the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods, which have been preserved and passed down to the next generation. concept design is a space that is unique to the region that conveys a message about people's awareness and value of the rich forests that have been connected over the past 100 years.
displays The "Forest of the World" begins with a diorama that recreates a rich forest scene, and then traces the diversity of life, geology, and other natural history, as well as archaeology and history, to learn about local resources. The collection of folk artifacts is also presented in the form of scenes that express the spirit of "unity" and bring the collection of folk artifacts to life. displays The collection of folk tools and the spirit of "unity" are represented, and the wisdom and ingenuity of our ancestors who survived in the harsh mountainous region are conveyed to visitors.


Customer's Voice
Your abundant experience and technology made it possible to address a variety of issues, including the succession of the old museum's "conveying the life and spirit of our hometown," easy-to-understand displays theme structure, displays renewability, and the use of Shitara-cho lumber.


＜Our project members
Sales and project management】 Tetsuya Kurita, Teruko Takai
concept design Direction】 Shunsuke Shimizu
Planning, design, layout】 Koichi Ido, Yoichi Miyakoshi, Nobuyuki Endo
Production: construction】 Koichiro Takahashi, Takeshi Suezaki