The Marui Group owns numerous commercial facilities in and around the Tokyo metropolitan area, many of them located in highly convenient locations such as station-fronts.
Nevertheless, the facilities were not fully utilized outside the business hours of the store, and so an idea to renovate a portion of the store into a shared residence was considered to utilize the space by switching its purposes between day and night.
A house with a Doma mixed-use ground space that connects to one another
The house stands on a 330m² plot in Takatsuki, Osaka, with an adjoining English school. Our proposal was to design the residence and school together, maintaining the connection between them while keeping the privacy of the residential space apart.
When both “high earthquake resistance” and “open space” are required
Usually, it makes more sense to have an Main space on the second floor because the amount of walls required structurally is less than the first floor.
Here, we aim to get the maximum spatial volume in the conditions given by taking in the surrounding environment of the “private road” where the front road is an individual property and planning a space in which the inside and outside are seamlessly continuous.
YSLA YamamuraSanzLaviña Architects was founded in 2016 by Spanish architect Natalia Sanz Laviña and Japanese architect and University professor Takeshi Yamamura, after years of experience in Paris, Tokyo and Barcelona, working for Kengo Kuma and Associates and Dominique Perrault Architecture. YSLA develops its work in both practice and academical fields looking for the inconspicuous elements or relations and aiming to design the architecture, the city, the landscape & the space mutually richer, unique and contemporary.
TA+A has completed ‘tokyo gasshuku-jo’, a share house in tokyo‘s itabashi ward with 18 living rooms that develop around a central atrium space. from the atrium, two concrete spiral staircases take residents to the various floors and functions of the building. We have clad the entire length of one of the stairs in double-layered textiles to softly divide the open space to provide enough privacy for different groups of residents. We have developed ‘tokyo gasshuku-jo’ as a four-story building situated on a corner lot in tokyo’s itabashi ward. the building operates as a one-month limit residence, aiming to create a new form of shared houses where the community is expanding while the inhabitants are constantly changing. in the center of the building, a large atrium, complete with the two staircases, directs residents to the 18 living rooms and common spaces of the property. the outer wall of the common space on the fourth floor has been set back about two meters from the building’s perimeter. the remaining space forms an outdoor terrace while the final form of the building allows it to blend in with those that surround it. inside, common spaces include two kitchens and a large living room, characterized by a series of stepped levels that define smaller zones for interaction.
This project is a private house in Sagamihara, Kanagawa. This building faces toward a park and a river while keeping privacy. For all of the family to be able to always feel a sign of them, the living room, dining room and kitchen is in one big space, divided only by the steps.
This is a new kindergarten and nursery for 76 children, which is built in the playground of the former facility. In the playground of the former building, there was a big tree and under the shade of that tree children used to enjoy gathering, finding interesting things in each season, and creating their own plays.
Thus, the concept of the new building ‘Connect to the Shade of Tree’ is created for the kindergarten’s characteristic and history that the shade of tree makes children’s sensitivity cultivated and makes people comfortable.
This house has been renovated mainly on the first floor because 18 years the completion. It is made by folding a plate, and a rectangular box made of concrete is inserted into it to support the whole. The outer surface of the box is finished with concrete cast in cedar board formwork, leaving the texture of wood even though it is concrete. In order to further strengthen the design concept at the completion, the entire inside of the box, that is, the kitchen area is covered with a wooden finish.
GAME FREAK Co., Ltd. is a company that develops home video game software, such as the Pokémon series, and games for smartphones. Its head office recently moved to an environment with improved security and a larger space to accommodate its expanding business. The new office location also facilitates better coordination and communication among staff working on cross-departmental projects.
This row-house-style apartment building in a high-density residential neighborhood is designed around the theme of spatial rhyming. The challenge was to create six three-story units that give residents the freedom to live as they choose, with a sense of both individuality and belonging, yet also maintain a consistent tone throughout the building in other words, to flexibly adapt to a wide range of design conditions. The site has an elevation drop on its southern side, which enabled a stepped design for the roof and unit interiors that blocks visibility where needed and brings natural light and ventilation into the residences. Through a composite design that is horizontally sectioned and vertically layered, we succeeded in achieving both a unified overall look with pronounced shadows and a set of six distinctive units.
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