Kikuchi Pocket Park by Takao Shiotsuka

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在一个小镇中，三个街道公园静静出现在古老的街旁，形成新的人行路线。A基地有三个凹陷水池，B基地有一系列的管道户外家具，C基地有一颗像大树般的中心大亭。这三个公园引发了小镇前所未有的新人类行为。

A基地Kiriake是水上公园，有三个凹陷水池，像是自然形成的水洼，均由白色石头铺成。周边的公厕和座椅均设计成石块状。B基地Yokomachi在一个十字路口，主题是流动与交流，这些管子形成坐凳和公厕，还有各个不同的漩涡般的空间。C基地Kamimachi还未建成，这里位于神社前的古老保护区，因此在这里设置了像圣树般的一个户外小筑。

The parks make the town hang together

In this project, three parks are planed in the city area which has old streets. Visitors walk around the parks, thereby making a new stream of people. In the site A, people walk around the three basins. In the site B, walk along the banks of pipes. And in the site C, the object like a tree is in the center of movement. Each site makes own movement. People experience a new activity never get in the previous town. As a result, new range of scene is created in the whole town.

Site A – Kiriake

It is water park using agricultural waterway. The motif of three basins is scenery of the puddles where water collected naturally in the ground which became hollow.

Pavement where white stone is spread. Public lavatory, bench, and shelter suggest stone and rock. These are like the relation between white sand and the stone of a Japanese rock garden. It is appearance of primitive scenery.

Site B – Yokomachi

This site is a corner plot of the intersection. The theme of this park is a flow and an exchange of the person. “Bank” that bends the pipe and piles it up forms a footbath, a public lavatory, and the bench, etc. These become person’s movement and guide of the activity. And, It pictures the design such as the whirlpool in the whole site.

Site C – Kamimachi
(pending state)

This park is in the history preservation district. The site is a front yard in the Shinto shrine. The equipment needed here is a plaza for the dedication ceremony (sumo wrestling), and, ablution hand-washing and footbath.

Additionally, the object that shows the stele of the place is set up. It will look also like “Sacred tree” that is within the enclosure of the Shinto shrine. As a result, harmony with the spectacle in the district is invented and the characteristic of this place is clarified.

Title of project: Kikuchi Pocket Park
Architect: Takao Shiotsuka
Location: Kikuchi-city,Kumamoto, Japan
Date of completion:March, 2012
Use: Pocket Park
Structure :steel
Photography: Toshiyuki Yano

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