Hara sketch for Raiding Project

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Hiroshi Hara is the grand master of Japanese post-war architecture. His best known buildings are Kyoto Station, Shin Umeda Skyscraper and Sapporo Dome. Used to designing spaces that can accommodate thousands of people, he has turned his attention to the micro cosmos of Raiding – a rural village South of Vienna where composer Franz Liszt was born.

  

1. Kyoto Station; 2. Shin Umeda Skyscrapers in Osaka; 3. Sapporo Dome

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For Raiding, Hara envisions a comfortable guesthouse (Hara House) at the entrance to a forest overlooking fields. He was inspired by the “salon tradition” at the time of Franz Liszt when people gathered for cultural events in their living rooms. Construction plans were finished (with the help of Lisa Zentner in Austria) and a plot of land dedicated to this project. However, the building code regulation consultant for the village of Raiding has not yet approved Hara’s work of art.

   

1. Window view from Hara House in Raiding; 2. Hara House model top view; 3. View towards construction site; 4. Hiroshi Hara with Raiding Project model

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1. Hiroshi Hara, Roland Hagenberg and Richard Woschitz at lecture BMW Group Showroom Tokyo; 2. Hara at his studio in Tokyo; 3. Hara-Hagenberg collaboration project for Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; 4. Hara at Franz Liszt’s birthplace in Raiding;

      

Models of Hiroshi Hara’s sculptural shelter for the village of Raiding which named “Drei Wanderer/Three Travelers”. The design refers to the art of traditional Japanese paper folding  (origami),  to a work of music by Franz Liszt called “Les annes des pelerinage” (Years of pilgrimage) and to rain coats.  

Hara’s “Drei Wanderer/Three Travelers” was handed over to the public in Raiding  in 2014


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