A sequence of spaces and volumes rooted in the natural features of the site and in its memory.

Project data

  • Status
    Built
  • Year
    1989 – 1992
  • Tipology
    Multipurpose complex
  • Location
    Kobuchizawa,Yamanashi-ken, Japan  > map
  • Client
    Vivre, Nichii Co. Ltd., Japan
  • Budget
    170 million € (adjusted to 2013)
  • Total Area/Surface/Volume
    38.000 sq m

Description

“Risonare“ is a big complex for holidays, still very successful, located in a context of great natural interest and beauty; a site which suggested its strong roots in the local territory and geography.
The open-air passageways and their axes frame the most interesting views the surrounding mountain ranges and Mount Fuji.
The vastness and typological richness required by the programme allowed for the insertion of a large-scale of spatial sequences, perspectives and variety in the layout of the interior spaces.

“Risonare” is very far from the somewhat artificial, needlessly jocund and often banal holiday resorts that one often finds; it is instead a sequence of many places of high architectural and environmental quality typical of the layouts of historical European cities but easily exportable to Japan.

The project represents the sum of the work and research done up by Bellini to this point in his career: a very important intermediary stage of his work as an architect.
His artistic maturity has now been reached and here allows him to elaborate the central themes of his work, as well as new experimentations which will be found again later on, even up to his most recent works.

(Ermanno Ranzani)

Credits

Design Team
Mario Bellini, Loretto Buti, Masahiro Matsuno, Andrea Mazzullo

Collaborators
Elena Bruschi, Chiara Costa, Enza Gueli, Carlo Malnati

Consultants
Project management:, M&E services:, Quantity surveyors:Takeda Ass. Architects, Structural design: Gendai Sekkei, Building contractor: Nissan Construction Co. Ltd., Works supervision: Takeda Ass. Architects/Mario Bellini Associati