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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Dear Ginza bldg in Tokyo, Japan by amano design officeSeptember 25th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: amano design office The client is a developer company. It purchased a long-sought after lot in Ginza, and planned to build a commercial office building. The building site is on the Ginza 1-chome Gaslight Street, which is one street behind the Ginza Central Street. It is on the back side of the Mizuho Bank and Pola Ginza buildings on the Central Street. The atmosphere is quite different from the gorgeous Central Street, and the site is on an empty street which is often seen behind the street with large-sized buildings.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.
 Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc. In addition, the designer desired to provide a “slight feeling of strangeness” to the passersby that would attract them to the building. Considering the views from the inside, simply obtaining openness with glass seems futile, since the outside scenery is hopeless. Therefore, a double skin structure is employed, which consists of glass curtain walls and graphically treated aluminum punched metal.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc. The façade becomes a part of the interior decoration and obviates the need for window treatments such as blinds or curtains. By using a double skin, reduction of the air conditioning load and the glass cleaning burden was also intended. The irregular façade design was determined by computing a design to avoid arbitrary forms and to approximate forms in nature.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc. We thought that a well-made incidental form would likely be a less-disagreeable design. In the neighborhood of mostly modernist architecture with horizontal and vertical or geometric shapes, the building has a proper feeling of strangeness, attracts special attention, and has an appeal as a commercial building.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc. The abstract flower graphic is used to balance the impression of the façade, i.e., to free it up from becoming too edgy. By computing the design, individual aluminum punched panels are irregular with different angles and shapes, yet all fit into a standard size, resulting in excellent material yield.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc. To avoid being clunky, an extremely lightweight structure is required. Therefore, much caution was taken in its details. The colored LED upper lighting, which is installed inside the double skin, entertains the passersby with different programs depending on the season. Expected tenants included a beauty salon and esthetic salon, and the expectations are materializing.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © Nacasa & Partners Inc.  Image Courtesy © amano design office  Image Courtesy © amano design office  Image Courtesy © amano design office  Image Courtesy © amano design office  Image Courtesy © amano design office
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