The Naoshima Plan “The Water” – Sambuichi
The structure was interpreted by the architect Hiroshi Sambuichi, that the townscapes of Honmura, Naoshima were built to pass on “moving materials” like “wind” and “water” as if they were batons in a relay race. Having found not only in the beauty of the “moving materials” itself, but also in the community where it is carefully handed over to neighboring houses, Sambuichi emerged the beauty of the two through the renovation of the old house. He manifested the characteristic of Honmura housings of adjacent rooms aligned south-north, and installed the pool filled with rich well water. If you put your feet into the pool from the windblown pier, you can see and feel the “moving materials” of Naoshima.
Sambuichi calls wind, water and the sun as “moving materials”, he has been working on “The Naoshima Plan” the project to remind the value of those materials in Naoshima since 2011. He presented Cockpit for Wind and Water in 2013, Naoshima Hall the multipurpose facility, and Matabe a private residence in 2015. In “The Naoshima Plan ‘The Water'”, he installed a pool filled with rich water from the groundwater arteries. By adding pure “water” into “the relay race of air” he had experimented so far, Sambuichi has created a space where visitors can experience the intellectual ideology of Honmura itself through their whole bodies.
