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‘It’s building with wood as though it’s masonry,’ says architect Kengo Kuma of his new, Jenga-like café in Toyama, Japan. ‘It’s a unique building method.’ Using ordinary, affordable and locally-sourced wooden blocks of uniform thickness (105-sq-mm), Kuma ‘piled up the pieces to create an organic building something like a forest.’ Thin steel rods run through the timbers and prevent them from tumbling down.
While the blocks are rectilinear, Kuma’s structure ebbs and flows like a force of nature, eradicating any strict boundary between the building’s interior and exterior: only glass walls separate the piles of timber inside from those outside.
Asymmetry prevents the design from appearing blocky, while limiting the points of contact with the ground gives the wood an unexpected lightness, as though it is growing upwards.
‘The idea of making an organic, fluid space using minimal materials is something we’ve developed in our past projects, such as the GC Prostho Museum Research Centre and the Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum,’ the architect says. The design is intended to be light on the environment, too. ‘Since the wood hasn’t been treated or worked, it can be easily disassembled and recycled.’

“这座木质建筑乍看之下像是石阶堆砌而成，”日本富山积木式咖啡吧的建筑师KENGO Kuma如是说,“建筑在建造时采用了独特的积木堆叠法”。
咖啡吧使用廉价普遍的本地木块，统一厚度105平方毫米，精小的咖啡吧却创造出了如匆匆树林般的有机整体感；木块间采用钢条拉结而成防止倾覆坍塌。建筑的木头选用直线型块状材质，木块搭接自然顺滑，剔除了严格边界限制，仅用数片玻璃隔墙就把室内外明确分割开来。不对称的体块既使建筑看起来不呆板机械，又限制了建筑落地面积，这样不仅增加了采光量，同时下部狭窄上部开阔的体型像由地面生长而出，建筑显得生机勃勃。“最省的材料来制造有机而流畅的空间是我们一直致力的设计研究方向，the GC Prostho Museum研究中心、梼原木桥博物馆都是这类作品，”建筑师说，当然，设计也希望能点亮环境，“由于使用的木料是纯天然未经加工的，回收和拆卸都比较容易。”