© ️ Nobuhiro Shibayama
Once upon a time, an old private house in Iwate was relocated to Hakone and completed.
Start with Mukashi Mirai.
2004 "Hakone House" was born. After that, the second phase of construction was completed (2016-7), overcoming the 2011 3.11 etc. Thinking while traveling in the rural areas of Japan before the relocation, living in the true Hakone that I love, living in the old folk house of my favorite Kesen carpenter, and living in the future that reinterpreted the technology and culture hidden in the old Japanese folk house I am familiar with how to build.
Kominka in Hakone
A 190-year-old Kesen carpenter's old private house was relocated and renovated in 2004. The birthplace of this old folk house is Iwate prefecture. The old folk house was carefully dismantled and relocated to a location overlooking Lake Ashinoko in Hakone. However, the old folk house was almost completely destroyed by the huge earthquake (March 11, 2011). Fortunately, this old but new house was moved to Hakone before the earthquake. It's a good place to carry Mukashi's house in 2003. In addition, there are various points of ingenuity in the second phase of construction, such as the wall on the mountain side, but in 2017 the balcony overlooking Lake Ashi and the treatment of the roof. Please take your time and watch it.
The region is home. The city center is for sightseeing.
Relocated an old folk house in Iwate prefecture to the true "Hakone Machi, Hakone"
I named it ZEKKEI.









Photographed by Mitsumasa Fujitsuka, Nobuhiro Shibayama

"Start with Mirai of Mukashi."
Japan is a culture created by coexistence and symbiosis since ancient times. In the Edo period, private houses, temples, bridges and shrines were built without using nails, and the so-called old buildings will continue to exist. There is a story that a 100-year-old house that was built will be useless in decades. It is said that it is humid, but the wood used is different. This is because the tree is fundamentally weak. This is because we import and use trees that are grown in a hurry and cheap trees. Before the old trees became burnt fields in the war, private houses were built using large Japanese trees as the key to the giant pillars found in the precincts of the former Izumo Taisha Shrine .
In this way, I am truly happy to be able to live with this old Iwate folk house built in Mukashi to Japanese Mirai while living in the true Hakone of Hakone-machi, which is an urban country close to the city center.

"Around Kesennuma, an old folk house in Iwate Prefecture is in Hakone, Kanagawa."
From the latter half of 1996, I started a trip to find an old folk house. Did you see about 50 cases between work? We discovered a precious old folk house built by a Kesen carpenter in the Tohoku region about 180 years ago, and relocated it on the slope overlooking Lake Ashi in a new style that fuses modern architecture and old trees. Unfortunately, the Great East Japan Earthquake lost many of the Kesen carpenters' homes in Rikuzentakata. This old folk house was one of the precious houses built by Kesen Carpentry from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era, and was relocated to Hakone for permanent residence in 2004 as a "high-tech old folk house" . (High tech is an abbreviation for "high technology" and is a cutting-edge technology in fields that will have a major impact on society in the next era.)

"Keep the old folk house alive today."
After polishing the pillars and beams for the first time in 10 years, the strength was alive and well without any deterioration, and they were protected by canvas. As the great architect said, it is also an open place surrounded by the canvas but full of light. I think that the relationship between a dark place surrounded by the depths, an open and bright place, a place with the darkness of the ceiling, and a space containing these three places has been established.



Drainage pit and deck area fixed in 2017.
The ceiling of the 2F guest room.
A trunk growing from a cliff is used to support a huge beam.
