Herbal Medicine Laboratory
2021@Taki, Mie Prefecture
The Herbal Medicine Laboratory is a facility that researches and manufactures the medicated bath formula offered at Honzo spa, a bath facility in the VISON in Mie Prefecture. It is annexed with a shop and café. The Honzo spa offers 72 different kinds of medicated baths over one year—that makes for a different formula roughly every five days—according to the herbal bath calendar called the “Honzo 72 Pentads.” The role of this facility is to develop and produce the recipes. Since this facility is predicated on herbal medicine, we focused on the relationship with the natural environment with regard to arrangement and design.











