Redefining the boundaries between architecture and ceramics

Is a "border" something that divides and separates two realms?
Or is it a place where different worlds meet, exchange, and combine?

Yuki Nara has two faces.
An architect who graduated at the top of his class from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School (Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts).
He is a potter whose father is Ohi Chozaemon, the 11th generation of Ohi ware, which has a history of over 350 years.

In the mid-1600s, when the Kaga feudal lord adopted the Senke tea ceremony from Kyoto, Ohi ware was born in Kanazawa as the only side kiln for Raku ware.
The name has been passed down from generation to generation since the first generation, Chozaemon Ohi. His grandfather, the 10th generation (currently Tojisai Ohi), was a recipient of the Order of Culture.
Born as the eldest son in 1989, Yuki was destined to inherit the Chozaemon name. However, because of his revulsion at being subsumed within these boundaries, he decided to distance himself from ceramics and pursue a career in architecture.

As a result, this opens up a completely new form of ceramic art.
Both my father and grandfather continued to challenge themselves to change in the midst of traditions that should and cannot be changed. The ``boundary'' between architecture and ceramics, which were supposed to be far apart, melted within Yuki, creating a complex that no one had imagined.

We will combine architectural design methods using the latest technology such as 3D CAD with traditional techniques of Ohi ware.Fragments of bone-like ceramic plates come together like vibrant flowers, emitting a primitive vitality that resembles the flame-fired pottery of the Jomon period.

Unlike Western architecture, in traditional Japanese architecture, the ``boundary'' between inside and outside is ambiguous.
A dirt floor, a porch, and an open paper shoji screen. Wind and light flowing through it.
He says that something new is born from within these ambiguous "boundaries."
The fusion of architecture and ceramics that Yuki Nara embodies is already attracting keen attention from overseas as well.

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