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Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum

Yusuhara, Japón

Bridge-museum in the forest town of Yusuhara (Kōchi, Japan), completed in 2010. Kengo Kuma revives the traditional Japanese technique of cantilevering supported on stacked brackets (hanegi): hundreds of small pieces of laminated local cedar are stacked from a single central pillar to support the walkway connecting a hotel and a spa. The system avoids large timber sections and demonstrates how to achieve large spans with local timber of reduced section, reactivating the municipality's forestry economy. An emblematic work of contemporary Japanese timber architecture.