The project is a gymnasium of an elementary school in the middle of mountain area. Through a workshop with the community residents, the program had been formed. Since the number of pupils were decreasing, the school itself should have been reorganized for the community. We shifted some rooms from one existing building to the other, so that the whole school is clearly divided into two parts, the school exclusive part and the community part.
The gallery introduced around the arena works as the circulation connecting the whole school. For both of the structure and the interior surface we used cedar wood from the area. We used the vacant space of the wooden box truss structure as the natural lighting system using the tube like reflectors, which introduce the bounced sky light into the arena.
For the exterior surface, we used the stainless steel with the traditional cladding system of the area. The reflecting surface responds to the ever changing environment. The double surface works as the filter to introduce the surrounding nature to the interior.