さてきのうは法事関係の予定があったので東京から朝１番の飛行機でトンボ帰り。朝6:30という飛行機は人生でも初めてみたいな時間でした。そういうことなので、それこそ２時くらいに起床して宿泊先のサウナ施設で目を覚めさせてから早朝の都内から羽田空港へ。朝１番便というのに満席フライト。すごいですね。同乗者はビジネスの人からインバウンドの海外客、欧米系から非中国のアジア系と多種多様。わたしが過ごしてきた国内航空ツアーとは様相が変わっていると思いますね。日本社会の構造変化なのでしょうか。
　普段とはまったく違う過ごし方だったので、カラダ的にはあちこち疲労感が大きくて、きのうは夕刻に帰宅してから以降、ひたすら爆睡して疲労回復に専念であります。おかげで、今朝はやや元気回復。
　東京でいろいろな情報交換するなかで例のフジテレビの社長さんとの「遠縁」も知ったのですが、この件では本日に再度のフジテレビとしての「記者会見」が予定されているようですね。わたしは「芸能」がメインのこうしたテレビメディアにはまったく関心がなく、ときに目にする芸人さんたちによるバラエティワイドショーみたいなのにはほとほとあきれかえっていた人生行路だった。そういう場所で人生を送ってきた人が高校同窓で、いま現在の社会的関心事のスポット局面に責任者として立たされていることに驚かされておりました。
　まぁ、今回の件はテレビという商業メディアにとってまことに際どい局面、正念場でしょう。門外漢としては、遠い距離感の中で事態の推移を見るしかない。わたし個人としては、むしろテレビメディアそのものが存続するのかどうか、その「臨界点」を見定めさせてもらうような心象であります。
　そういう次第ですが、写真は安藤忠雄設計の姫路文学館の建築写真。自分はやはりこういう建築とか住宅空間などの領域がメインの「数寄領域」だと再認識。そういう、空間性と作家とか漫画家とかの表現者との相関関係というテーマ・場所がメインと見定めて掘り下げていきたいとあらためて念願しております。

English version

Media and Entertainment Unified Structure ‘in Peril’ Today
Society’s attention is now focused on the ‘structure’ itself, which has been devoted exclusively to ‘making ratings’. This is a critical moment. How will it develop? …

　Well, yesterday I had a legal appointment, so I flew home from Tokyo first thing in the morning. It was the first time in my life that I had flown at 6:30am. So I woke up at around 2am and went to the sauna facilities at my accommodation to wake myself up, and then went from Tokyo to Haneda Airport in the early morning. The flight was full, even though it was the first flight of the morning. It was amazing. The passengers were diverse, from business people to inbound overseas passengers, from Westerners to non-Chinese Asians. I think the aspect has changed from the domestic airline tours I have been on. Is this a structural change in Japanese society?
　Since it was a completely different way of spending time than usual, my body felt very tired here and there, and since I came home in the evening yesterday, I’ve been sleeping heavily and concentrating on recovering from the fatigue. Thanks to that, I felt a little better this morning.
　In the course of exchanging various information in Tokyo, I also found out about my ‘distant relationship’ with the president of Fuji Television, and it seems that another Fuji Television ‘press conference’ is scheduled for today in relation to this matter. I have never been interested in this kind of TV media, which mainly focuses on ‘entertainment’, and have been fed up with the variety shows by comedians that I have seen from time to time in my life. I was surprised that someone who had spent his life in such a place was a high school alumnus and was now in charge of a spotlight of current social concern.
　Well, this is a critical moment for the commercial media of television. As an outsider, I can only watch the situation from a distance. For me personally, I feel as if I am being asked to judge whether the TV media itself will survive or not, and whether it is a ‘critical point’ or not.
　The photo is an architectural photograph of the Himeji Museum of Literature, designed by Tadao Ando. I have reaffirmed that I am mainly in the ‘sukiya domain’ of architecture and residential space. I would like to delve deeper into the theme and place of the correlation between such spatiality and artists, cartoonists and other forms of expression.
　

Posted on 1月 27th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　さて i-works参観4。きのうも触れた家のメインの窓回りです。現在は三角屋根の落雪方向からの雪に閉ざされているけれど、この窓外にはウッドテラスと造作された庭がある。積雪のためそこまで取材できなかったけれど、かなり力点の置かれた庭園造作と推認された。それと木製３重ガラス入りサッシ（NORD社製とのこと）が結界を構成している。
　その中間には横桟の外部建具、一種の雨戸とも思える装置が備えられていた。外部とは一定の空隙があり、折からの「暖冬」傾向もあって建具動作には支障はないようだった。また、屋根からの水分落下ラインとの間には軒天の距離が取られていた。
　その窓面から、内側には最外側に「網戸」が建具収納されている。木製窓にちょっとゴッツい手動用取っ手があるので、その分、後退距離が取られていた。
　そして、現場では最内側に障子が収納されていて、それが開閉されることを確認した。ただ、その網戸と障子の間にもけっこうな距離があって、なにか建具が収納されていたようだったけれど、確認できていなかった。
　床面を見ると、パッシブ換気と床下暖房からの暖気上昇用の開口部が仕込まれていた。この木製サッシとの距離感が内部用の建具収納スペース分、けっこう目視的には30cm程度ある。このような建具仕様がどのように環境性能的な結果に結びつくのか、あまり目にしたことがなかった挑戦かも知れない。
　建具の重層による効用としては、外部の採光に対してそれを複数のレイヤーで室内に導入させるというメリットがある。数寄屋建築が象徴する空間性とは、そういった採光レイヤーによって「やわらげられた」光環境を室内にもたらすことなのだろう。縁側や軒の出なども含めてそれが日本人的な感受性、コトバで言えば「空気を読む」みたいな人間相互の「思いやり」のような心象を育成・涵養してきたとも思える。
　考えて見るとわたしたち北海道の住宅では、そういった心象への「配慮」はひたすら空気環境の均一性・快適性のいわば「物理的」な方向一択だったかも知れない。このような挑戦が、どのように北海道民に受け入れられていくのか、興味深いと思った次第。わたし自身は1991年、いまから34年前にブロック構造の外断熱という、従前の日本建築とははるかに距離感のある選択をしたけれど、現代ではむしろこうしたチャレンジがあるのだと認識した。

English version

Multiple lighting and environmental layering devices – i-works visit 4
　I myself chose a non-traditional residential architecture of non-timber-framed concrete blocks with external insulation, but times are changing. …

　Now i-works visit 4. the main window area of the house, which I mentioned yesterday. It is currently closed off by snow falling from the direction of the triangular roof, but there is a wooden terrace and a garden outside this window. We were not able to cover that much of the garden due to the snowfall, but it was considered to be a very important part of the garden construction. The wooden triple-glazed sash (made by NORD) forms the boundary between the terrace and the garden.
　In between, there was an external fittings with horizontal piers, a kind of storm door. There was a certain amount of airspace between them and the outside and, due to the occasional ‘mild winter’ trend, there seemed to be no problem with the operation of the fittings. There was also a distance between the eaves and the moisture fall line from the roof.
　From that window face, the outermost ‘screen door’ was fitted and stored on the inside. The wooden window has a rather lumpy manual handle, so a setback distance was taken from that.
　And on site, a sliding door was stored in the innermost side, which was confirmed to be opened and closed. However, there was also a considerable distance between the screen and the sliding door, and it seemed that some kind of fittings were stored there, but we were unable to confirm this.
　Looking at the floor, there was an opening for passive ventilation and warmth rising from the underfloor heating. The distance between this wooden sash and the internal fittings storage space is approximately 30 cm visually. It may have been a challenge to see how such a fittings specification could lead to environmental performance results, which we had not seen much of.
　The benefit of the multiple layers of fittings is that they allow multiple layers of light from the outside to be introduced into the room. The spatiality symbolised by sukiya architecture is probably to bring a ‘softened’ light environment into the room through such layers of lighting. It seems to me that this, including the veranda and eaves, has nurtured and cultivated a Japanese sensitivity, or in other words, a mental image of mutual consideration for each other, like ‘kuki wo yomitaku’ (reading the air).
　When you think about it, in our houses in Hokkaido, the only ‘consideration’ for such mental images may have been in the ‘physical’ direction of uniformity and comfort in the air environment. It will be interesting to see how this kind of challenge will be accepted by the people of Hokkaido. In 1991, 34 years ago, I myself chose to build a block structure with external insulation, a choice that was far removed from the traditional Japanese architecture, but I am now aware that such challenges exist in the present day.
　

Posted on 1月 25th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　こちらの住宅見学では数人の既知の住宅関係者と遭遇。久しぶりの住宅見学機会だったのですが、どうしても「やぁ、久しぶり」モードになってしまってあんまり住宅本体のことについての話題には行き着かなかった（笑）。一応、数人の建築士の方とは住宅本体のことについて話すこともできたのですが、やはり「本州以南地域と北海道の住宅作法の違い」がポイントかと。
　北海道では本州以南地域での「一般解」である「雨戸収納」という概念がほとんど消滅している。雨戸という存在は、開口部の「全開放」のために夜間や降雨時に「遮蔽」するのが用だと思われるのですが、北海道住宅ではそもそもの開口部について、その「性能」面に徹底的に研究開発を進めたことで「断熱性能」を爆上げしてきた。そもそも「窓の全開放」という住み方自体が伝統として根付いていない。
　こちらのモデル住宅に伺って、いちばん最初に目に飛び込んでくる外観仕様が上の写真ですが、２階の窓開口とほぼ同じスパンで木製の「外部建具の収納」用と思われる装置が眼に入ってきた。外部仕上げの道南スギと同じ素材で仕上げられているので、ちょっと見落とすかも知れないのですが、３枚目の写真でわかるように、建具類を収納させるに足る「深さ」は確認できた。
　窓サッシは外壁面と面が揃っているので、その外側にこの収納装置が「張り出して」装置されていることがわかる。「これは」と一気に興味が湧き上がってきてしまった。北海道住宅が「失ってきた」外部空間性について、再度の気付きを仕掛けているように思われるのですね。ただ、短時間の参観時間のなか、前述のようなことでスタッフのみなさんへの質問時間も十分取れなかったので、応答は叶いませんでした。今後、機会を見てこのあたりについて質問してみたいと思った次第。
　ただ、ひとつの可能性として日本家屋の持っていた伝統的な「しつらい」をこの北の地で再生、というか新生させるというチャレンジは刺激的だと思われた次第。
　外壁の道南スギの張り方も「縦張り」でしかも通常の「幅」と比べて１枚ごとがほっそりとしている。外壁を保護する軒の出はしっかり確保されている。木の表情が好ましく目に優しかった。

English version

The ‘storm door storage’ specification in cold climates – i-works visit 2
The Q&A time flew by as many people greeted each other before they even entered the entrance. Many things I wanted to ask. Here is part 1. …

　During the house tour here, I encountered several known housing professionals. It was the first time in a while that I had the opportunity to visit a house, but I couldn’t really get into a conversation about the main body of the house because I was in a ‘Hey, it’s been a while’ mode (laughs). I was able to talk to a few architects about housing, but I think the main point was the difference in housing methods between the regions south of Honshu and Hokkaido.
　In Hokkaido, the concept of ‘storm door storage’, which is the ‘general solution’ in areas south of Honshu, has almost disappeared. The existence of storm shutters is thought to be used to ‘shield’ the opening for ‘full opening’ at night or during rainfall, but in Hokkaido housing, thorough research and development into the ‘performance’ of the opening in the first place has led to an explosion in ‘thermal insulation performance’. In the first place, the way of living with ‘all windows open’ itself has not taken root as a tradition.
　When we visited this model house, the first thing that jumped out at us was a wooden device for ‘storing external fittings’, which was almost the same span as the window openings on the second floor. It is finished in the same material as the external finish of Dounan cedar, so it might be a little overlooked, but as can be seen in the third photo, we could see that it is ‘deep’ enough to allow for the storage of the fittings.
　The window sash is flush with the exterior wall surface, so it is clear that this storage device is ‘overhung’ and rigged outside of it. The interest in the building was immediately aroused. It seems to set up a renewed awareness of the external spatiality that Hokkaido housing has ‘lost’, doesn’t it? However, as we did not have enough time to ask questions to the staff due to the aforementioned reasons during our short visit, we were not able to respond to them. I would like to ask questions in this area in the future when I have the chance.
　However, the challenge of revitalising, or rather renewing, the traditional ‘shitsurai’ of Japanese houses in the north of the country as a possibility was thought to be exciting.
　The outer walls are made of Dounan cedar, which is stretched vertically, and each piece is slender compared to the usual ‘width’ of the house. The eaves are well secured to protect the outer walls. The wood has a pleasing appearance and is easy on the eyes.

Posted on 1月 23rd, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　昨日は表記のような「報道発表会」が行われるという案内が来ていたので、そろそろことしの「住宅ジャーナリスト」としての活動も再起動させるのにいい刺激機会ということで参加してきました。
　わたしは北海道建設局の建築指導課による住宅施策の審議委員も務めてきているので、そういった意味からも情報に接している必要があると考えた次第です。また、テーマが「太陽光発電」ということで、Replan誌面で連載記事を執筆いただいている前真之東大准教授の取り組まれている事柄でもあるので、深く興味を持っていることもありました。
　パリ協定からの脱退も予測されているアメリカ・トランプ政権発足の同日に、脱炭素化の先端的取り組みの発表が行われるというのも、ある意味象徴的なのかも知れませんね。以下、報道発表資料より要旨。
　〜YKK AP 株式会社（本社︓東京都千代⽥区、社⻑︓⿂津彰）は次世代型太陽電池であるペロブスカイト
太陽電池を⽤いた建材⼀体型太陽光発電の実証実験を実施するため、2050 年までに市内の温室効果ガス排出量を実質ゼロ（カーボンニュートラル）にする⽬標を掲げ環境省の「脱炭素先⾏地域」にも選定されている札幌市（市⻑︓秋元 克広）と、1⽉20 ⽇に連携協定を締結しました。〜

　具体的な行動計画として、期間2025年2⽉4⽇〜11⽇のさっぽろ雪まつり開催期間中に・時間11時〜20 時（⼀般開放）・場所︓第75 回さっぽろ雪まつり ⼤通会場３丁⽬（札幌市中央区⼤通⻄３丁⽬）【さっぽろ雪まつり 実証実験 概要】・ムービングハウス「SAPPORO ZERO BOX」にて、次世代型太陽電池であるペロブスカイト太陽電池を⽤いた内窓タイプの建材⼀体型太陽光発電等により実証実験を⾏います。ハウス内では、札幌市の取り組みに関する情報発信の展⽰も⾏います〜とのこと。

北海道と太陽光発電については屋根面設置での積雪による不利があって、普及が進みにくい背景事情がある。住宅性能の最先端地域なので日本の住宅革新を引っ張ってきた地域だけれど、一方では世界有数の積雪地域でもあることで、ややパラドックスな状況になってきていた。
　そういった状況に、建材メーカーの雄がどのように切り込んでいくのか、興味深い。今後、折に触れてウォッチして行きたいと思います。

English version

YKK AP and the City of Sapporo signed a collaboration agreement on building material-integrated photovoltaic power generation.
A demonstration experiment using next-generation photovoltaic power generation (perovskite solar cells) is open to the public at the Snow Festival site. An interesting challenge…

　Yesterday, I received an invitation to attend a press conference as described above, which I thought would be a good stimulating opportunity to restart my activities as a ‘housing journalist’.
　I have also served as a member of the Hokkaido Construction Bureau’s Building Guidance Section’s Housing Policy Deliberation Committee, so I thought it necessary to keep myself informed. I was also deeply interested in the theme of ‘solar power generation’, which is the subject of a series of articles in Replan magazine by Associate Professor Masayuki Mae of the University of Tokyo.
　In a sense, it may be symbolic that the announcement of the cutting-edge decarbonisation initiative is made on the same day as the inauguration of the US Trump administration, which is also expected to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The following is a summary from the press release.
　〜YKK AP Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Akira YAZU) has announced the development of a new building material using perovskite solar cells, a next-generation type of solar cell.
(Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Akira Akitsu) concluded a collaboration agreement on January 20 with the City of Sapporo (Mayor: Katsuhiro Akimoto), which has been selected as a ‘decarbonised region’ by the Ministry of the Environment with the goal of achieving virtually zero greenhouse gas emissions (carbon neutrality) in the city by 2050. 〜The agreement was signed on January 20, 2012.

　The specific action plan is to carry out a demonstration experiment during the Sapporo Snow Festival from February 4 to 11, 2025, from 11am to 8pm (open to the public) at the 75th Sapporo Snow Festival, Odori 3-chome (Odori West 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo). A demonstration experiment is being carried out at the moving house ‘SAPPORO ZERO BOX’ using next-generation perovskite solar cells, which are a type of next-generation solar cell, in a building material with an internal window. Inside the house, an exhibition of information on Sapporo’s initiatives will also be held.
Hokkaido and photovoltaic power generation have a background situation where the disadvantage of roof-mounted solar power generation due to snow cover makes it difficult to spread. The region has led Japan’s housing innovation as it is at the forefront of housing performance, but on the other hand it is also one of the snowiest regions in the world, which has led to a somewhat paradoxical situation.
　It will be interesting to see how the leading building materials manufacturer will tackle this situation. We will keep an eye on the situation from time to time.

Posted on 1月 21st, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　休日なので昨日もお気に入りの北海道余市の魚店「新岡商店」で買い出し。先日購入してきた「タコとんび」を食べ尽くしてしまっていたので、またあるかなぁと訪問してみた次第。無事にあったので、即購入。地元の漁師さんたちの「その日獲れた魚類」を買い付けるお店なので、行ってみなければなにがあるかわからない。よく買いに行く札幌中央市場の鮮魚店舗群などでは全道各地の漁師さんたちの漁獲が集中するので、魚種についてもユーザーが好きに選べるのだけれど、こういう地元密着店ではそうはいかない。でも、そういうのが出会いの楽しみ、その土地・海の「めぐみ」だとも言える。
　ということなのですが、昨日目を奪われていたのが、こちらの「かすべ」であります。かすべというのは地元の方言名で、エイのこと。〜「カスベ」とは、北海道の方言で「エイ」のこと。ガンギエイ科の魚の通称であり、コモンカスベやメガネカスベなどがこれに含まれます。その名の由来は諸説ありますが、カスベは鮮度が落ちるとアンモニア臭を放つため「煮ても焼いても食べられない、カス（かすっぺ）にしかならない魚」という意味で付けられたと言われています。〜うーむ、いかにも北海道っぽい（笑）。
　どうも加齢してくると、こういう地元感に「揺りかご」的な郷愁をつよく刺激されてしまう。幼い頃に母がこしらえてくれた食品が脳内でその周辺的な思いとともに気分が復元してくる。たぶん幼い頃にも地元の味と言うことで多量に出荷されていて、庶民的な食材として食卓を賑わしていたのでしょうね。ときどき母と一緒に買い物に行って、店頭で見かけていた記憶が再生される。

　ということで購入して帰ってきたけれど、カミさんは「こんな料理、わたしは作らないよ」みたいに無視を決め込んでいる。おお、ありがたい（笑）。もちろんわたしが料理させてもらった。って言っても、料理は単純な煮付けなのでコンブ出汁とショウガを加えるくらいで、あとは単純な味付けのみ。幼年時の住宅はもちろん寒かったので、冬場にはこの煮付けは朝になるとゼラチン部分が「にこごり」に変身していた。それがまた、強く脳裏を刺激する。
　現代では冷凍庫に入れるしかないでしょうが、そういうのも楽しみたい。おお、ハラが減ってきた。

English version

[Boiled kasube, the soul food of the people of Hokkaido
A taste of Hokkaido’s common people and winter delicacies, commonly known by the discriminatory name ‘kasube’. The shape of the fish and the local flavour are deeply soothing. …

　It’s a holiday, so yesterday I went shopping again at my favourite fish shop, Nioka Shoten, in Yoichi, Hokkaido. I had eaten all the ‘octopus tonbi’ I had bought the other day, so I visited to see if they had any more. It was safely there, so I bought it immediately. Because it is a shop where local fishermen buy ‘fish caught that day’, if you don’t go there, you don’t know what’s there. At the Sapporo Central Market, where I often go to buy fresh fish, the fish caught by fishermen from all over the province are concentrated, so users can choose the type of fish they want, but this is not the case at these locally-based shops. But this is the pleasure of encountering the local people and the ‘blessings’ of the land and sea.
　Yesterday, I was drawn to this Kasube, which is a local name for the local people. Kasube is the local dialect name for stingray. 〜Kasube is the Hokkaido dialect name for stingray. It is the common name for fish of the family Acanthuridae, which includes the common kasube and spectacled kasube. There are various theories as to the origin of the name, but it is said to have been given to kasube in the sense that it is a fish that cannot be eaten boiled or grilled, but only turned into dregs (kasube), as it releases an ammonia odour when it is no longer fresh. 〜Mmmm, very Hokkaido-like (laughs).
　As I get older, this kind of local feeling stimulates my nostalgia in a ‘cradle’ kind of way. Foods that my mother used to prepare for me when I was a child come back to me in my brain, along with the surrounding thoughts and feelings. I think that even when I was a child, they were shipped in large quantities as a local delicacy and were a common ingredient on the dinner table. Sometimes I go shopping with my mother and memories of seeing them in the shops replay themselves.

　So I bought it and came home, but my wife decided to ignore it, as if to say, ‘I don’t cook this kind of food’. Oh, thank goodness (laughs). Of course I cooked it. But it was a simple simmered dish, so I only added kombu soup stock and ginger, and the rest was just simple seasoning. The houses in my childhood were of course cold, so in winter this simmered dish had the gelatine part transformed into ‘nikogori’ in the morning. That also strongly stimulated my brain.
　Today, you would have to put it in the freezer, but I would enjoy that kind of thing. Oh, I’m getting less harried.

Posted on 1月 19th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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