Art Museum & Library in Ota, Japan by akihisa hirata

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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.

Art Museum & Library in Ota, Japan by akihisa hirata architecture office

August 27th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: akihisa hirata architecture office

“Let the city bloom”

It is a cultural exchange facility built in front of Ota station in Gunma prefecture.

Ota City has a population of about 220,000 people, and the number of users of the station exceeds 10,000 people in a day. But few people walk in front of the station, shopping streets are quiet. To pioneer breakthroughs for such a situation prevailing throughout Japan, it is the purpose of construction to bring life back in front of Ota Station.

Therefore, for people to easy to walk though and stop by, we aimed for architecture that the town is continuing to the inside.

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Architects: akihisa hirata architecture office
Project: Art Museum & Library
Location: Ota, Gunma, Japan
Photography: Daici Ano
Client: Masayoshi Shimizu (mayor)
Project Architect: Yuko tonogi
Construction: Tetsuya Kobayashi, Tomonori Takahashi, Jyunya Mugikura, Kouki Kobori
Design Team: Ayaka Matsuda, Ayami Takada, Hitomi Namiki, Naoki Nakamata
Structural Engineer: Mitsuhiro Kanada, Junichiro Ito (ARUP)
Mechanical Engineer: Kentaro Suga, Hirotaka Ogihara, Arata Kiyono (ARUP)

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Site Area: 4641.33㎡
Building Area: 1498.87㎡
Gross Floor Area: 3152.85 ㎡
Building Scope: 3F＋B1F –
Height: 15.3ｍ(maxim)
Building to Land Ratio: 67.9%
Floor Area Ratio: 32.3%
Design Period: 2014. April-2015. June
Construction Period: 2015. July-2016. December
Completion: 2017. January

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Specifically, we proposed a configuration surrounding the slopes of steel frame rims around five RC construction boxes. People can walk around on each floor like walking in the city.

Also, in order to enable people of various age groups and backgrounds to find their own places, we tried to coexist three-dimensionally with places with various characteristics. Like the coral reef ecosystem, is.We recognized the need to make it something unique to Ota. From the images of the wings and propellers of the Nakajima airplane which was once in this town, the appearance of a multi-flow knotted architecture was evoked.

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At the same time, in response to the scenery where several hills are scattered in the plain field, such as the Tenjinyama kofun that is the biggest keyhole-shaped tumulus in eastern Japan and the mountain castle town of Nitta Yoshiju, we came up with something resembling the modern hill of the same scale as the old tumulus.

I wish that the architecture like flower born in front of the station, which was designed with involvement of a large number of citizens and stakeholders, let the bloom new revitalization to the city.

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Tags: Japan, Ota

Categories: Art Center, Cafe, Interiors, Library, Museum

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