Article source: APOLLO Architects & Associates Co., Ltd

This residential project located in Obu city, Aichi prefecture, serves also as a gallery space for the contemporary art collection of the client. This building consists of a hybrid structure, with a podium on the 1st floor level composed of reinforced concrete and glazing, and wooden boxes configured in two floor levels and placed on top of the podium. Floor area becomes larger as it goes up in higher levels. With the box on the 1st floor level in glazing, and the other boxes for 2nd and 3rd floor levels in galvanized steel siding representing different color from the 1st level, the building provides a distinct character from its proportion with a sense of floating in the space.

Image Courtesy © Masao Nishikawa

• Architects: Satoshi Kurosaki / APOLLO Architects & Associates Co., Ltd
• Project: Gaze
• Location: Obu city Aichi, Japan
• Photography: Masao Nishikawa
  
• Structure: Timber
• Structural Engineer: Nomura Structure (Nomura Motoi)
• Mechanical Engineer: Naoki Matsumoto
• Lighting design: Sirius Lighting Office
• Exterior Finish: Galvalume
• Floor: Tile
• Wall: Emulsion Paint
• Ceiling: Emulsion Paint
• Lighting: LED
• Site Area: 82.73m2
• Total Floor Area: 125.29 m2 (40.75m2/1F, 42.47m2/2F, 42.47m2/3F)
• Design Period: July 2012 – November 2013
• Construction Period: November 2013 – May 2015
• Date of Completion: November 2015

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