Seminar House Pavilion and Tea House
Output consisting of two temporary structures: Seminar House Pavilion, built in the garden of Dorich House Museum, Kingston Hill, London (2016); and Tea House, created for the exhibition ‘The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945’ at the Barbican Centre, London (2017).
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-48-0000
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Seminar House Pavilion, Dorich House Museum, Kingston Hill, London & Tea House, Barbican Centre, London, 2017, exhibited as part of The Japanese House: Architecture and Life After 1945, Barbican Centre, London
- Open access status
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- Month of production
- June
- Year of production
- 2016
- URL
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https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2016/06/10/dorich-house-museum-pavilion-now-open/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research output consists of two temporary structures: Seminar House Pavilion, built in the garden of Dorich House Museum, Kingston
Hill, London, 2016, and Tea House, created for the exhibition The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 at the Barbican
Centre, London, 22 March–25 June 2017. Hayatsu led the research process for both pavilions; he played a key role in the design and
construction of both structures, in collaboration with the Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori and a group of Hayatsu’s architecture
students at Kingston University.
The structures both manifest Hayatsu’s research interest in self-building and the possibilities and ongoing relevance of the ‘Red School’ (Akaha), a term coined by Fujimori to describe an earthen, tactile and unrefined approach to architecture associated with practitioners such as Osamu Ishiyama and Arata Isozaki.
Hayatsu’s research process involved site visits to Red School buildings, interviews with Red School architects, material and process experimentation and site visits to forest and sawmills in Japan and the UK.
The Seminar House Pavilion is a viewing tower, a multi-layered structure made from oriented strand board (OSB) and softwood composite panels, zinc, hand-split wooden shingles, and charred timber (yakisugi), with an upturned profile. The Tea House was made from materials such as walnut, oak, lime plaster and charred cedar. The door and cupboard handles were cast in bronze, with the ceramic hearth, lampshade and seating made by Product & Furniture Design students at Kingston University. For Hayatsu, it embodies the collaborative spirit of a craft approach to architecture.
The Seminar House Pavilion was nominated for the Architects’ Journal (AJ) Small Project Award in 2016. The research has
been featured in The Guardian and the Financial Times, in which architecture critic Edwin Heathcoate identified Hayatsu’s contribution
to the renewed exploration of embodied making and manufacture in contemporary architecture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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