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2021

GOOD DESIGN|グッドデザイン・ベスト100

Award-winning item
hotel [GALLERIA MIDOBARU]
Business Owner
Sekiya Resort Inc.
Category
Construction and environment for commercial facility
Company
DABURA.m Inc. (Japan)
Award Number
21G131228
Outline of Good Design Award winners
Outline of Good Design Award winners 2021

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Outline

This is a new hotel planed with 35 rooms by the accommodation company founded in Beppu in 1900. Each has the view of cityscape and the bay of Beppu and also has a free-flowing hot spring. The public space is open to people and connected to environment. We designed as a new exchange base that connects the local community and visitors with "site-determined" architectures and 12artworks as catalysts.

Producer

Taichiro Hayashi, Representative Director, Sekiya Resort Inc.

Director

Takafumi Mitsuura, Representative Director, DABURA. m Inc.

Designer

Takafumi Mitsuura, Representative Director, DABURA. m Inc.

DABURA.m 株式会社 代表取締役 光浦 高史

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https://dabura-m.info/

Already in service/use
2020/12

Evaluation

Planning of a hotel in western part of Beppu, featuring reddish massive concrete walls. The color and rough texture recall the surface of mountains in the surrounding area. Its form, which is sometimes seen overwhelming like a cantilever, is not derived from the functional requirements of the architecture. Rather, it seems to follow the principle of autonomous existence as an object that is not affected by human intentions, like the surrounding natural terrain. Its lasting appearance beyond the changing demands of society, such as natural land, guarantees the hotel a site-specific value that can only be appreciated here. In the hotel, many works of art featuring the land/site are displayed, and the composition of the land/site and the human beings who live while interpreting it is expressed through the relationship between the art and the hotel just like the site. This is the architecture as a modeling object found by interpreting the land and its overwhelming existence. We highly rated this as a precious approach in recent years showing the fundamental power of the architecture.

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