Bubbletecture H

Shuhei Endo's bubbling environmental learning hall at Harima Science Garden City, Hyogo, Japan (2008).

Core Features

• Hyogo Environmental Experience Hall: a bubble of a 3D truss built from local cedar thinnings.
• Roof and wall run together in weathering steel over a sunken courtyard used as an optical garden.
• The volume floats on a concrete frame above a fire-prevention tank, on sixteen 1.5 m piles.

Architectural Connections

• Shuhei Endo: the "-tecture" series' author.
• Cultural: environmental education hall.
• Japanese: Hyogo's science city.

Related Elements & Sites

Courtyard (element), Cedar (material), Steel (material)