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Japan 2019Japan National Stadium

Tokyo
Sports | Civic
Completed
194,000

This large stadium was designed as a collection of small-diameter pieces of wood.
The facade consists of overlapping, multi-layered eaves.

The underside of each eave is covered with small-diameter wood louvers in an effort to express the tradition of beautiful eaves in Japanese architecture in an appropriate contemporary manner.

Square cedar lumber measuring 105mm, the most common size in Japan, was split into three 50mm pieces, to create these louvers. The frequency and density of the louvers was varied in order to give a human-scale to the eave.

The roof has a truss structure which combines steel beams and laminated lumber with a medium cross-section, utilizing the axial stiffness of wood to minimize deformation of the roof trusses due to wind or earthquakes.

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Team Minoru Yokoo, Kenji Miyahara, Tomonori Kusagaya, Soichiro Harada*, Genki Yada, Tomohiro Matsunaga, Tsuyoshi Kanda*, Masahiro Minami Award The 63th Building Contractors Society (BCS) Prize Publication GA JAPAN 187 , Casa BRUTUS 2024 vol.287 MARCH , Nikkei Architecture 2023/01/26 No.1232 , GA JAPAN 179 , Kindai Kenchiku 2022/09 vol.76 , Shinkenchiku 2022/09 , Shinkenchiku 2022/03 別冊 国立競技場 , GA JAPAN 174 , Nikkei Architecture 2021/08/26 , Nikkei Architecture 2021/07/22 No.1196 , Nikkei Architecture 2017/01/12 , Casa BRUTUS 2021/01 vol.249 , Casa BRUTUS 2021/01 vol.249 , Shinkenchiku 2020/12 , Shinkenchiku 2020/08 , Shinkenchiku 2020/08 , Nikkei Architecture 2020/05/14 , Casa BRUTUS 2020/03 vol.240 , Nikkei Architecture 2020/01/09 , Shinkenchiku 2020/01 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/12/26 No.1158 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/12/12 No.1157 , Shinkenchiku 2019/10 , Shinkenchiku 2019/10 , Shinkenchiku 2019/09 , Shinkenchiku 2019/09 , Shinkenchiku 2019/09 , Shinkenchiku 2019/09 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/07/25 No.1148 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/05/09 No.1143 , Casa BRUTUS 2019/05 vol.230 , Casa BRUTUS 2019/05 vol.230 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/01/24 No.1136 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/01/24 No.1136 , Nikkei Architecture 2019/01/24 No.1136 , Casa BRUTUS 2018/11 Vol.224 , Casa BRUTUS 2018/11 vol.224 , Shinkenchiku 2018/09 , Casa BRUTUS 2018/09 vol.222 , Shinkenchiku 2019/09 , Nikkei Architecture 2018/08/23 , JA : The Japan Architect 2018/Summer 110 , Nikkei Architecture 2018/02/08 , Nikkei Architecture 2018/02/08 , Shinkenchiku 2018/02 , Nikkei Architecture 2018/01/25 , Nikkei Architecture 2017/11/19 , Shinkenchiku 2017/02 , Shinkenchiku 2017/01 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/12/22 , Shinkenchiku 2016/12 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/11/24 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/07/14 No.1075 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/05/12 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/04/14 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/04/14 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/02/25 No.1066 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/02/11 , Shinkenchiku 2016/02 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/1/28 No.1064 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/1/28 No.1064 , Nikkei Architecture 2016/01/14 , Shinkenchiku 2016/01 , Shinkenchiku 2016/1 , Nikkei Architecture 2015/10/10 No.1057