OIST, Misawa Homes jointly awarded Good Design Award Best 100 for Sustainable Architecture

OIST, Misawa Homes jointly awarded Good Design Award Best 100 for Sustainable Architecture

The Sustainable Architecture in the Hot-Humid Region in Tancha, Onna Village selected for the Good Design Award, Best 100 (photograph courtesy of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion)


October 3, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo

On October 2 the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (Tokyo Prefecture) announced the results of the 2019 Good Design Award (1,420 entries selected).

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST, Onna Village) and Misawa Homes Institute of Research and Development (MHIRD, Tokyo Prefecture), among others, conducted collaborative research on creating a stand-alone house that generates energy and water, and that coexists with and reduces the burden on the environment.

This Sustainable Architecture in the Hot-Humid Region (hereafter referred to as Sustainable Architecture) was assessed to be useful as a model for the future, and was selected for the special award “Best 100”.

This is the first time since Best 100 announcements began in 2012 that an entry from Okinawa has been selected for it.

Stone walls and such of the Sustainable Architecture are built of Ryukyu Limestone, in part by adopting traditional methods, such that the Sustainable Architecture is resistant to strong sunlight and typhoons, and serves the purposes of equipment for accumulating solar heat, sunlight, and rain water.

The research was pursued at OIST, which is in a subtropical, hot, and humid region, for the purpose of development in developing island nations such as Indonesia.

Professor Hiroaki Kitano, a researcher representing OIST, said, “Okinawa is the best region for conducting this research in terms of being hot, having high humidity, and there being damage from salt.

The design has been assessed to be very important in that is has vast significance and can potentially demonstrate considerably high-quality results.

From here on we will advance discussions toward making practical use [of the design].”

OIST, Sony Computer Science Research Laboratories (Tokyo), and Misawa Homes (Tokyo) were jointly granted the award for the Sustainable Architecture.

Aside from the Sustainable Architecture, the House on the East Coastline from Atelier Kadoguchi Co. Ltd. (Uruma City, representative Yasunori Kadoguchi), and the Ideal Currency Myahk from Institute Rito Mirai Lab (Miyako City) and Suisei Inc. (Tokyo) were also selected for the Good Design Award.

(English translation by T&CT and Erin Jones)

Go To Japanese


　


Previous Article:
Next Article:

[Similar Articles]