Actor Network of the 6th industry fishery house

Referring to Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory, the image aims at providing a cmprehensive overview about the project in terms of logistics and activities(fishery and oyster production, gastonomy and tourism),user(the local and the visitor)and its relationship with the context of the village and landscape. The restaurant in the building has the menu based on local oyster products and daily new caught fish. The idea is to make full use of those „non-standard /left over „fish, which is not suitable to sale in the Ishinomaki fish market because of the amount and type, as seafood specialty and delicacy to attract tourist. It is also a lunch place for the 40 workers in the oyster factory. Around the building, there are some small vegetables fields and a small chicken farm, providing foods for the market and the restaurant on the on hand. On the other hand, it is also expected to use oyster shell and leftover of the fish to improve the salty soil as a long-term plan.

Elevation, Plan, Section

The building opens to the context in various ways. Conceived as a new communal center for the village, the house shows a representative character with its big roof and strong timber structure.For the distribution of functions: while the specialty restaurant is at the upper floor with an open view, the ground floor are for fishing tool shop and grocery market with a pool to keep fish temporary. The latter is the reinterpretation of the “doma (earthen floor)” in traditional Japanese house.

Reclaiming the seaview

Perched at a small slope near the entrance to the pier, Its two-stories height reclaim the view of the pier as well as the sea that is blocked by the seawall built after the tsunami.

Fishery House as New Nexus

The fishery house function as a complex of a fishing tool shop, grocery market and a specialty restaurant. New caught fish can be kept in the pool at the ground floor temporally, waiting to be picked up and made into delicacy upstairs. Those fishes that are not consumed in time will be processed and dried in the loggia. Local community members use the front yard as working space. Farming happens around the building. It becomes a nexus for the local (blue) and the visitors(red).

Construction Detail

The building is shaped by heavy timber structure of local cedar wood. the structural elements are connected through woodworking joints and nails. Cedar panel and corrugate metal sheet uilt the envelope and the roof.