When the architects arrived, the existing buildings were in terrible conditions, so they had to keep only three of them: the office building (with a steel structure), the storage room (with a stone structure) and the warehouse, built in wood. By its nature, the newly constructed storage/exhibition room does not have any openings on its exterior walls other than those required for the transportation of drums. There is, instead, a tunnel-like passage that runs through the building so that visitors can experience the interior space.
Kunihiko Matsuba and Kesuke Fukushima, Sake Brewery, technical drawings, old warehouse, now washroom and exhibition room
Kunihiko Matsuba and Kesuke Fukushima, Sake Brewery, technical drawings, old storage now exhibition room
Hirozakari Sake Brewery, Nakanojo-machi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Program: multiuse building
Architects: Kunihiko Matsuba (TYRANT Inc.), Kesuke Fukushima (N-LLC)
Site area: 1,184 sqm
Structural engineering: Tatsumi Terado
Completion: 2016