京都発祥の旅館「Nazuna」が、新たに「Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita」として箱根へ進出し、その改装デザインを担当した。
これまで京都を拠点に、木造の町家を再編集しながら京文化を現代的に体現してきたが、今回は箱根のRC鉄骨造という条件のもとで、京都らしさを表現することが求められた。
京町家の「路地、玄関、土間、坪庭、居間」という要素や、「外」と「内」の曖昧な境界に着目し、屋内でありながらも屋外的な要素を再構成し空間を繋げることに注力した。
建物入口の暖簾をくぐると、焼杉の外壁や石畳、格子といった屋外の要素が屋内へと連続している。京都の町並みを彷彿とさせる路地空間の先には、町家の玄関のような客室入口があり、土間や坪庭を室内へと引き込むことで、明神ヶ岳の景色を背景にした開放的な構成としている。
近代的なRC造の内部に「路地空間」と「町家」の関係性を与え、土間から居間へとつながる「外」と「内」の曖昧な境界を築くことで、箱根において京町家の伝統を現代的に再解釈した新たな旅館を創り上げた。
＊2025年5月 OPEN

Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita is a newly opened ryokan in Hakone by Nazuna, a brand originally established in Kyoto. We were responsible for the design of its refurbishment.
While Nazuna has traditionally reinterpreted Kyoto culture through the contemporary re-editing of wooden machiya townhouses, this project required the expression of Kyoto-like qualities within the constraints of a reinforced concrete (RC) structure in Hakone.
Drawing inspiration from key elements of the Kyoto machiya—such as alleys, entrances, earthen floors (doma), tsuboniwa courtyard gardens, and living rooms—as well as the ambiguous boundary between "inside" and "outside," we focused on reconfiguring the interior using outdoor-like elements to create a sense of spatial continuity.
Upon passing through the noren curtain at the entrance, features typically found outdoors—such as charred cedar exterior walls, cobblestone paving, and latticework—are drawn into the interior. At the end of an alley-like space reminiscent of a Kyoto townscape, guests arrive at an entrance designed to evoke that of a traditional machiya. The doma and tsuboniwa garden extend into the interior, framing a view of Mt. Myojingatake in the background.
By recreating the spatial relationship between the alley and the machiya within a modern RC structure, and by establishing an ambiguous boundary from the doma to the living room, we have reimagined a new kind of ryokan in Hakone—one that contemporarily reinterprets the traditions of the Kyoto machiya.

*Construction is scheduled to be completed in April 2025, opening on May.