2022.04.22

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Built 100 years ago, the renovated industrial heritage site becomes a local symbol

Photo : Osamu Murai

Renovation4 Handa Red Brick Building
The Kabuto Beer brewery was designed in 1898 by Yorinaka Tsumaki, one of the three masters of Meiji architecture. The Handa Red Brick Building is a historic property that the city of Handa chose to preserve in 1996 in order to utilize it as a municipal asset. We approached this renovation proposal from a city planning standpoint.
The elaborate brick and half-timber structure of this building was the best technology of the time, but for a 100-plus year old building to accommodate a large number of visitors, it was essential that it be reinforced against earthquakes. To maintain the exterior, the designers adopted an earthquake-resistant technique called the reinforcing bar insertion method. A total of 8,000 meters of reinforcing steel bars were inserted into the brick walls, an unprecedented large-scale maneuver.
The renovated building keeps historic features like five-layered compound walls, a heat insulation technique used in an era when air conditioning was not available, and has become a symbol of the city as an industrial heritage site.

WORK PAGE Handa Red Brick Building, Conversion

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1 From “scrap & build” to “stock & renovate”
2 Passing on 40 years of knowledge to the design and renovation of the future
3 Renovation plan in the Covid-era to protect what is most important

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