Inside and outside rapport

Responding to the existing natural garden that spreads around the site, experiencing rapport with the natural, water environment surrounding the newly constructed artificial garden water basin and hot spring facilities.

A wooden hot spring inn in an old hot spring town was rebuilt and planned as a hot spring facility open to the community. People who visit the facility will come and go while experiencing nature cut through the semi-external space that connects inside and outside, which is produced by the water basin. The exterior is pursuing a simple and modern Japanese-style design with the beauty of a large Japanese roof made of Sanshu clay tiles and a linear composition of segmented masse.