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Yashima Mountaintop Park – SUO

Yashima Mountaintop Park – SUO

2024

Designed by SUO, this project sits atop Mount Yashima, a natural landmark within Setonaikai National Park, and reimagines a fading tourist destination as a continuous architectural landscape. In response to strict environmental protections that limit new construction, the design adopts a lightweight, serpentine structure that follows the terrain’s natural contours, seamlessly blending into a site gradually reclaimed by nature.

Rather than imposing a traditional building, the architecture unfolds as a three-dimensional path—touching the earth at select points before lifting into the air. This creates a fluid sequence of spaces: a viewing platform, a floating café, areas for events, and exhibition zones. Visitors don’t so much enter the building as move through and beneath it, engaging with the structure as an extension of the mountain itself.

Shaped by voids, topography, and movement rather than solid mass, the project transforms architecture into a framework for encounter—celebrating openness, immersion, and reverence for the surrounding environment.

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Tags:

  • Japan,
  • national park,
  • Park,
  • SUO,
  • and Takamatsu

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