Yashima Mountaintop Park – SUO
Located atop Mount Yashima, a natural treasure within Setonaikai National Park, this project reimagines a declining tourist destination as a continuous architectural landscape. Strict environmental regulations limited new construction, so the design adopts a light, serpentine structure that flows with the terrain’s natural contours, integrating seamlessly into the site’s gradual return to nature.
The building acts as a three-dimensional path—touching the ground at key moments, then lifting into the air—creating a sequence of open spaces including a viewing platform, floating café, event zones, and exhibition areas. Rather than entering a conventional structure, visitors move through and beneath the architecture, experiencing it as an extension of the mountain itself.
The project’s form is cast by the landscape, shaped not by enclosure but by voids and topography, transforming architecture into a framework for encounter, movement, and environmental reverence.
