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Kure Kizuna Hall

Aug. 01,2017
Theater / HallMultipurpose Hall

Project Description

The Kure Kizuna Hall was renamed the Shin Nippon Machinery Hall on October 1, 2019. We use the name as it was at the time we published this article here.

New government office completed in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture

Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture is the home of the Yamato battleship. A new government office was completed here in January 2016. The location is along Kuramoto-dori Avenue. This avenue can also be called the main road of Kure City. It is the site of the former city hall, civic hall and community center. 

It was decided that the former government office building, which had played the role as the seat of municipal government in Kure since its completion in 1962, would be demolished together with the adjacent civic hall and community center due to concerns about its ability to withstand earthquakes. The new government office building rebuilt on this site is comprised of four buildings: a government office building, an assembly building, a civic hall building and a parking lot. Each building is connected by an indoor passageway called the Civic Mall. There are great expectations that this complex will become the center of new urban development in the city.

Kure Kizuna Hall – where the audience seating can be stored electrically

Located in the civic hall building, Kure Kizuna Hall is a multipurpose hall. It can accommodate 624 people when in the theater format and 750 people when in a flat stage format. It was decided to introduce a mobile system for the audience seating under the assumption it will be used as a hall when a wide space is necessary as a disaster prevention base for the Self-Defense Forces, police and fire department at the time of an emergency.

The seats at the front of the audience seating have been installed on a movable wagon. The rear of the audience seating is electrically powered retractable seating developed by Kotobuki Seating.

It is necessary to take a few steps to store all the seats. First, the steps at the front of the audience seating are laid flat with a floor elevator function. After that, it is possible to easily move the front seven rows by hand by lifting up the wagon carrying the seats with air pressure. All the seats at the front are moved onto the stage and the retractable seating is then stored by remote control. The flat stage space is completed by moving the retractable seating which folds up like stacking chairs on the stage in the same way through a forward movement system.

Finally, storing the sliding wall at the rear of the audience seating quickly transforms the facility into a flat space which continues on from the Civic Mall. It is possible to transform the facility into a space which anyone passing through the government office building can feel free to enter.

Like a candle lit as a prayer for peace

Both the seats at the front on the wagon and the retractable seating at the rear are both custom designed for the Kure Kizuna Hall. We also set up seats designed to facilitate access for the elderly and disabled with retractable armrests so that it is possible to sit in the audience seating even if you are a wheelchair user. 

The round shape of the backrests with a tapered top is reminiscent of a candle. The color is graduated from the bottom to the top of the seats. The motif is of a fire in the heart like a flame rising up when your soul comes into contact with art.

This is impressive audience seating as a hall which symbolizes the kizuna (bonds) of the city and its residents as though a prayer for peace has been lit in the hall.

Project Summary

Location
Kure City, Hiroshima Map
Client
Kure City
Design
DAIKEN SEKKEI. INC.
Opened
Mar, 2016
Seats
581
Special Website
Kure City Website