Finally KURA (renovating the old storage) project came to take its first step! This Kura was built when Gen's great-grand father was the chief of this farm. What is amazing is that it's built only with bamboo and soil.
Gen has been dreaming to have his office in this KURA(so cool!)and the specialized architect team came last week to decide how to renovate the wall.
ついに蔵プロジェクトが動き出しました。ひいお爺さんが建てたと言われるこの蔵、今もとても良い状態で残っていますが、今回はこの蔵を農場のオフィスとしてリノベーションします。
Firt, we need to decide if we can reinforce the wall only with putting another layer of clay or we need to scratch the original layer off from the wall first and then make completely new wall. When we scratched off a part of the wall, we could see the fine foundation for the wall which is made by bamboo.
Finally our architects concluded that we don't need to reinforce the bamboo basement as bamboos and original walls are quite solid, so we basically need to make one more coating for the wall so that the old wall doesn't spread dust and Gen can keep the clean air in the office.
先週は「蔵チーム」の専門家たちが、蔵の構造をチェックしに来てくれました。蔵をオフィスとして使うためには、今の壁を補強しないと、土埃で大変なことになりそう…壁にそのまま漆喰を塗るか、もしくは一度全て壁をはがして、一から作り直すか。とりあえずみんなで壁の内部を見るためこすり取ってみました。出てきたのは、丁寧に組まれた竹木舞！「しっかりしてる！！」
結局、壁ははがれてきた表面のみを軽くブラシでこすり取って、そのまま上に漆喰を塗っていくことになりました。
We made the different kinds of clay: the yellowish one is plaster + yellow sand, the second one is plaster + sand from river, the third one is plaster + sand + straw.
According to our architect, the final colour appears a few days later! Gen and I have been observing it every day with curious eyes!
次なる課題は、どの漆喰を塗るかということ。色と質感を見るために、3種類の漆喰を作って塗ってみました。上から、漆喰＋瀬戸の砂、漆喰＋川砂、漆喰＋川砂＋わら、です。色は漆喰が完全に乾いて定着するまで変わり続けるそう。毎日、興味深く見つめています。 11月、12月は蔵プロジェクト（壁塗り）で忙しくなりそうです。