“Sumita Town Hall in Kesennuma-gun, Iwate”

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Large Wooden Town Hall Fully Utilizing Domestic Timber

This town hall of Sumita in Iwate Prefecture, a forestry town, was designed to use local timber as much as possible. The roof configured with lens-shaped timber trusses provides wide space. Moreover, lattice bearing walls, Face.Lattice, which were co-developed by STROOG and Professor Inayama from the University of Tokyo, allow light and breeze to flow inside the building. As Face.Lattice uses an abundance of 90×90mm timber material, as much as 710㎥ of locally produced timber was utilized for this town hall. At the same time, ready-made beam end connectors for mid to large-scale structures, Node.HSML, were applied to the beam ends with a large cross-section allowing reduced cost. In addition, to exhibit precious wood in the hall, Stroog.LSB were used in columns foot joints.

 

Sumita Town Hall in Kesennuma-gun, Iwate
Architectural Design:Maeda Corporation, Hasegawa Corporation, Nakai Architecture, Modern Architecture Institute
Structural Design:Holzstr
Total Floor Area:2,883㎡
Floors:2 above ground
Structure:Wood
Building Function:Town hall
Photography:Makoto Yoshida(1-7)

 

Connectors Used
NodeHSS
Node.HSS Beam end connector for small-scale structures

NodeColumn
Node.Column Column head and foot connector

NodeFastener
Node.Fastener Configurable for other types of connectors and various fasteners


Node.HSML Beam end connector for mid to large-scale structures

FaceLattice
Face.Lattice Connector for lattice bearing walls

StroogLSB
Strong.LSB Various types of lag screw bolts

 

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