This tenant building is in the residential neighborhood facing the narrow street from one block away from Aoyama Ave, by contrast to a number of tall buildings along the way. Situated in this gap between these two scales, we aim to stand the one in a way that doesn’ t belong to both of these scales. The shape of the building is fairly bent skywards, like a stomach being stuck out forward, which does not allow people to tell how many stories it has in looking up the building from the street. The design of two slit patterned windows that opens on each level also makes unclear the scale. Sunlight reflected on the curved outer wall like gradation, while inside of the room it streams in through the windows. Based on the concept of “abstraction “,we design a new way of the encounter between architecture and people.
URBANPREM Minami Aoyama
Architecture
- Title
- URBANPREM Minami Aoyama
- Date
- 2007.05 - 2008.12
- For
- commercial
- At
Tokyo
- Size
- 360㎡
- Status
- Completed
- Publications
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toki.tokyo November 19, 2021
Asahi Shimbun November 17, 2020
Ring September 2016
KAN KAN Kenzai News 2016 78
SHIN CORPORATION BROCHURE Spring 2014
B・1 BE ONE MAGAZINE September 2011
Casa BRUTUS November 2010
Real Design June 2009
MARK April 2009
VOGUE April 2009
MARK March 2009
New Generation Architect Designer
Detail, Summer 2009
Architect’s Interior Design November 2008
DETAIL JAPAN September 2008
The Rules of Architectural Presentation
metropolitana October 2007