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Contents − Profile − Projects 005
Central Glass International Cpmpetiton 2015
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Shigeru Ban Studio
SPA-NGLE OF GLASS
Gap of Walls
Selected as 2nd prize
Keio University Bachelor Course 2011 Selected as the award of excellence
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Manabu Chiba Studio LASH -Linear After School House-
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Bridge of Revival Workshop
Tokyo University Master Course 2012
Roof Over the River
Selected as the 2nd prize
Tokyo University Master Course 2013 Selected as the 1st prize
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Bachelor Graduation Project Isezaki 6-chome International Development Scheme
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TamaHome Design Competition 2014
Keio University Bachelor Course 2011
Spreading House, Parasited City
Selected as the 3rd prize
Honourable Mention
Central Glass International Cpmpetiton 2014 Escola de la Escadas -School of StepsSelected as 2nd prize
− Afterword
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Profile
Name
Itaru Yamamoto
Born in
Yokohama, Japan
Date of Birth
27/09/1987
Written & Spoken
Japanese, English
Education
09/2004 - 08/2006
/ 山本 至
Bloxham School Private High School in England
04/2007 - 03/2011
Keio University, Bachelor Course Studied at Shigeru Ban, Hironori Matsubara, Shigeki Hori Laboratory
04/2012 - 09/2014
The University of Tokyo, Master Course Studied at Hiroshi Ota Laboratory
Work Experience
04/2011 - 03/2012
Ito-Juku Initiative for Tomorrow's Opportunities in Architecture Architecture School operated by Toyo Ito
10/2014 - Now
Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
Competition Prize
Internship During Holidays
12/2011 DaiwaHouse Essay Competition 2011
Selected as the 1st prize
10/2012 Central Glass International Competition 2012
Honourable Mention
09/2013 DaiwaHouse Design Competition 2013
Honourable Mention
10/2013 TamaHome Design Competition 2013
Remained as Finalist
02/2014 Daito Kentaku Competition 2014
Selected as the 2nd prize
10/2014 Central Glass International Competition 2014
Selected as the 2nd prize
01/2015 TamaHome Design Competition 2014
Honourable Mention
03/2015 SRF Competition
Honourable Mention
10/2015 Central Glass International Competition 2015
Selected as the 2nd prize
07/2006 - 08/2006 Hiromura Design Office 08/2007 - 09/2007 Sou Fujimoto Architects 08/2008 - 09/2008 Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office 08/2009 - 09/2009 Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop 03/2010 - 09/2010 Toyo Ito Architecture Office
Workshop
07/2007 Kids Architecture Workshop “Let's make a soft architecture” with Toyo Ito 04/2011 Support of the reviving plan of kamaishi 03/2013 Yabuki Revival Workshop 07/2015 Harvard GSD Japan Summer Workshop 2015
Contact
Address 15-5-4F, Izumi-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan 221-0842 Phone Number +81-80-4371-0927 / +81-45-323-3790 E-mail yaitaru@gmail.com
Projects
SPA-NGLE OF GLASS Central Glass International Competition 2015
Program :
Public Watering Place
Theme :
The Glass
Site :
Kampung, Kota, Jakarta, Indonesia Kampung means slam in Indonesia. We found out three crucial problems in Kampung. I proposed three basic solutions to them.
Jury :
Riken Yamamoto, Kengo Kuma, Hiroshi Naito, Taro Ashiwara, etc.
Time Period :
07/2015 - 10/2015
Prize :
2nd Prize
Software :
Rhinoceros, V-ray, Photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design
Kampung, a word originally pointed at fishermans village, is a dense residential area that expanded after the Second World War, when migrants begand to flood in from all around. This area, usually viewed as the slum district of Jakarta, is an iconic core of Indonesian culture, but due to its poverished nature, hold much social issues. Sanitation is insufficient, and sewage systems overflow in the rainy seasons. On the other hand, Kampung holds a very unique communal system called RT, a group of 100-700 residents, creating a closely knit community in an area that seems chaotic and random at first glance.In a time where regional inequality is rapidly increasing, we will revitilize and rehabilitate the area by creating a communal glass tower and pavements.
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1m
Effective Range of Mandi
Concentration of Trash
Each RT has their own public
As the yellow get darker, it shows
watering place called "Mandi". Mandi
that more leavings on the street.
usually has simple shower and well.
Kampung is always facing the
However hygienic environment is
problem of trashes. It tells the lack of
very low quality and not big enough
consideration to the public.
Flooded Area 0.8m 0.6m
0.4m
Kampung is always suffering from flood. Espicailly the site, Kota is very closed to the river. In the rainy season, people in Kampung are facing the risk of death all the time.
for all the people in RT.
SPA-NGLED TOWER
TENT
SPANGLED STREET
PILE OF RUBBISH
OPEN ROOF
SINGLE HOUSE
SHOWER PIPE
GREENERY
EVACUATION PATH
GLASS BLOCK INUNDATION
WATER TANK
EVACUATION PATH
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Customize Mandi to a "Spa-ngled Tower" that hygienic environment is easily kept.
Avoid the trash to pile up on street by placing the infrastructure between greenery
To evacuate from the flood that rarely comes to the height of the waist, the glass units
This tower is an icon of each RT. Water tank from each existing residences are used
and glass units. As fine view of street is developed, people unconsciously keep the
are taken out from the “Spa-ngled Tower” and pile up on the street to bulk up the
as a part of infrastructure.
streets clean.
street level. GLASS MODULE
PIPE
300mm
PILE OF GLASS
150mm 300mm
INFRA-PIPE GLASS UNIT GREEN CONCRETE STRUCTURE
Bamboo reinforced concrete and infrastructure pipe are set in the tube of glass.
Setting glass units on green, the infrastructure pipes and greenery kept undamaged.
To bulk up the level of street by glass units, people can evacuate from second floor.
SPA-NGLED TOWER
Mandi in Kota only has 3 shower rooms and 1 well. Bamboo
At least 100 people have to share those facilities which is
shower
highly impossible. I propose
Sauna
"Spa-ngled Tower" which
Public Kitchen
becomes a symbol of each RT with function of Mandi.
Public Bath Bamboo reinforced Concrete Well Infrastructure Pipe
Use the tube between two glass units as shuttering for concrete as the structure. 07
The tower used as a tower figured mandi and people use it as new public spaces.
SPANGLED STREET
Streets in Kampung are very narrow and complex. The ground is dilapidated and unpaved. I propose "Spangled Street", infra pipe is sandwiched with glass units and green. This makes people to keep the streets clean.
As whole Kampung is covered by glass units, three crucial problems will be solved. 08
Table Public Square Laundry Drinking Water Inspection Opening Stall Local Flower Bed Infrastructure Pipe Glass units piled up on streets becomes public functions such as public benches.
LASH -Linear After School HouseManabu Chiba Studio Tokyo University Master Course 2012
Program :
After School care for Children and Day Nursing Service
Theme :
Architecture for kids
Site :
Yokohama, Japan This Linear site is originally used as a rail way for Toyoko-line. Now it is used as a Linear park which is almost abandaned.
Jury :
Manabu Chiba, Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Mikiko Ishikawa, Jun Sato, Noboru Kawazoe, Hidetoshi Ono, etc.
Time Period :
05/04/2012 - 15/07/2012
Prize :
2nd Prize / Aquired a vote from 8 juries out of 10
Software :
Rhinoceros, Cinema 4D, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator
In this studio, we are asked to design some institution for kids. As long as the place is for kids, we were allowed to design anything. As I had an experience of visting an after-school when I was an elementary school student, and I couldn't like the place very much, I thought why I did not like there. The reason I came up was the architecture of the after-school. If the architecture was different, the attitude of mine could be also different.
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In Japan, population ageing is a very serious problem. However there is no critical solution for that and many aged people have lost the place that they feel communicated. As the number of children dicreases and the number of the aged increases, we should no longer consider a public facilities for only one group of people.
Ordinary
LASH day-use
Primary School +after-school
stay
As the graph below shows, the number of single parent family and the number of dual income family both sharply increases each year. Which means the number of children who spend their time by themselves at home, also increases. As local communities are taken apart, children are more and more isolated. (million families) 80
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Site Plan 1:3000
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The site is called “Flower Green Street”. It was originally a rail way and renovated into a linear park for pedestrians. The park has width of only 10m, but people very rarely use the park, even though there 1980
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2000
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are many schools around the site. I propose a new type of after-school.
Building Process This architecture is constructed in three steps. As I wanted to release the ground level because it is already used as a park, I came up with this giant slope architecture. To have these three steps, it is structually possible, and also could have varieties of spaces. Phase. 1 less than 5°
Draw an arch on the site which have very gentle angle so that even the aged people can easily go up and down. The highest degree of the slope is 5°. This would be a standard line.
Phase. 2
To pick the line up and down, make one more line. This line is crossing the standard line at some points.
Phase. 3
Between these two lines, 8 spaces can be found. These spaces have diffenet activities. Some spaecs are separeted and some are overlapped each other.
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PEDESTRIAN CAR PUBLIC
HALL
AFTER-SCHOOL
FARM
DAY-CARE
This artificial ground connects the ground level activities and aerial activities. According to the proportion of the architecture, entire space and the edge of the city and architecture will be seamless.
Plan & Section This linier architecture has many different functions. Functions are placed by undulations. This building itself is a park, so anybody could walk through as a pedestrian bridge. This architecture is an after-school for kids, day-care for elderlies, a public park and street for everyone.
AFTER-SCHOOL
DINING
PUBLIC
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West Side Plan 1:600
West Side Section 1:400
Middle Part Section 1:400
Middle Part Plan 1:600
Details Interiors are constructed in two different spaces. One is under the upward-arching rays and the other is above the downward-arching rays. Consequently, the spaces above the downward-arching rays are more close to the ground level; therefore the functions are more public.
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In the drawing below, two upward-arching rays stand next to each other. Two arches lie on top of one another, a linier space is created. This inner space could be used for two separated functions or one connected function. As the space is long and narrow, the functions could be laid gradationally.
Isezaki 6-chome International Bachelor Graduation Project Keio University Bachelor Course 2011
Program :
Complex Facilities
Theme :
Fight against modern mega development
Site :
Isezaki, Yokohama, Japan One of the oldest area in Yokohama, where many small stalls still exsist.
Jury :
Fumihiko Maki, Shigeru Ito, Hironori Matsubara, Jun Sato Yoko Kinoshita, Hiroto Kobayashi, Yasushi Ikeda, etc.
Time Period :
09/2010 - 02/2011
Prize :
3rd Prize / Selected for an Extramural Exhibition
Software :
Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator
This project is my graduation project for bachelor course. In this project, we are not given any theme, therefore we have to find it by ourselves. As the masterpiece of my bachelor course, I decided Isezaki as the site. The place is in Yokohama where I grew up and live. The site has interesting atmosphere that small stalls gather and sex industries have so much power. However even such site is under the project of mega-development. If the scrap and build is necessary, I instead propose the new way of development.
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Concept Normally if there are two different sites, two buildings on them are naturally separeted. However in this project, even though the owner of the lands are different, if the site is next to each other, they have to share the wall that stand just the edge of the site. With this system, having the separeted small site, one can have the biggest site efficency from the site.
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Site
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Building Process
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2. Wooden walls on the structure
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4. The building next door shares the wall
5. New part of the building mount on
6. People use the building
Scraping boxes from the volume. The surface area increases with this process.
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The frame structure and walls are separeted so the owner can attach the walls where they want.
The wall is built from a panel with 500mm width and 50mm thickness.
Plan
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Italian
Tailor
Massage
Cafe
+400
Cafe
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Karaoke
Calligraphy
+200
Noodles Chinese
Post ±0
Travel Agent
French
+800 +200
+400
+200
±0
+1200
Second hand book store
+600
Study Room
+400 +200
Ballet School
±0
+400
+800
+4000 Plan +1200
1:800
Private Night School
+1600
Laundry
Graphic Design Office General Store
Flower Shop
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±0
Fast Food
+200
Day Care
+2000
Fast Food
Sweet Shop
+1600
+1200
Newspaper
Atlier
+400
Indian Food
+400
+200
±0
±0
Yoga
+400
±0
Indoor Farm Public Library
Piano
+800
Dump Site
Office
Stage
Waiting Room
+12000 Plan
Ground Level Plan
1:400
1:800
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Section
North - South Section
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Non Continuous Building :
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Bulding are separeted to each other
Continuous Building : There is no property line to each other
West - East Section
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Escola de la Escadas
- School of Steps -
Central Glass International Competition 2014
Program :
Education Centre
Theme :
Symbol of a town
Site :
Favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Favela means slam in Brazil. There are many problems in this site. We set the unique character of this site as a symbol to solve the problems.
Jury :
Riken Yamamoto, Kengo Kuma, Hiroshi Naito,
Favela
Taro Ashiwara, etc. Time Period :
06/2014 - 10/2014
Prize :
2nd Prize
Software :
Rhinoceros, V-ray, Photoshop, Illustrator
Urban Society
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Drug Cartel Vicious Circle
Poverty
Vicious Circle
Unemployment
The theme of competition this year was “Symbol of a town�. We are asked to design a new symbol. Many modern cities especially in Asia are losing their symbols, because the urban development equalize the landscape of the city. Under the situation, we found the place that still has the great symbol in Favela, Brazil. However on the other hand, the enviroment there is getting worse. I aimed to improve the site with the new symbol that they already had. The title of the work is called "Escola de la Escadas", meaning "School of Steps" in Portuguese that will become the new education core within the Favelas.
Drug Cartel Poverty Unemployment
Education
Employment
Rio de Janeiro Botafogo
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Reusing the abandaned arachitecture
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Stairs to cause various activities
Clothes as a local symbol 160
Kitchen Recreation
Regional Life Local School Job Training
Controling the Natural Enviroment
Job Practice
300
Class-Room
160
Exhibition
Shopping Street
Stage Type
1500
Dinning Rest House Studio
Structural Skelton
Visible Symbol
Hotel for Everyone
Hall
Recreation Market
Plaza
Clinic
Church
Rest House
Niche Type Unused House
Brick Stair
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160
Class-Room PlayGround Stage
300
Public Line
160
Offers from the Local Residents Meander Type
CIty
Favela
Nature
1500
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Temporal Accomodation for Kids Public Library Play Spot After School Stage under a Tent Exsisting Street Playing Sports
Using Roof-tops
Negative Chain in Favela
Place of Education as a Symbol of a Town
Education-Core
Despite the sharp rise in population in the last decade, lack of basic infrastructure is
We believe the spread of education is essential for improving this
1. Versatile Education Space
still a big issue in the area, and the lack of connection with the outer cities make it
situation. Now, we propose “Escola de la Escadas”, meaning “School
The brick step will ascend along the
difficult for dwellers to find proper jobs. In order to improve this situation, the spread
of Steps” in Portuguese. We have chosen Botafogo, one of the largest
mountainous slope, and along different
of education is essential. According to statistics, up to 69% of the population has
Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, as the designated site. This Favela has 3
inclinations, various stepping patterns will
not finished compulsory education, and 69.5% of the population are illiterate. As a
characteristics. First, the area holds a high number of vacant houses.
be designed to host different educational
result, people cannot find a way to live outside of the Favelas.
Second, the favela is built along a sharp mountain slope, and third, it
activities.
has a dense population compared to normal urban areas. 6％
17％ 7％ 59％
2. Living Infrastructure for the city
12.9％
This school of steps will not only be a place
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17.6％
for children to receive education, but also for
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an opportunity to bring infrastructure into the
69.5％ 69％
area.
Programs in the flow of time
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Morning : Schools and functions for kids
Evening : Trade school for adults
Night : Hostage for abandaned kids and shops for public
A dinning space
Kids taking a lecture
Various Activities
Public library and etc
Gap of Walls Shigeru Ban Studio Keio University Bachelor Course 2010
Program :
New style of ordinary shopping street in Japan
Theme :
Wooden Structured Building
Site :
Tokyo
Rule. 3
Tokyo's typical residential district. Jury :
Shigeru Ban, Hironori Matsubara, Hiroto Kobayashi Yasushi Ikeda, etc.
Time Period :
04/2010 - 07/2010
Prize :
Award of Excellence
Software :
Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator
This is an early work of mine. We are asked to design a wooden structured building in a very typical residential district in Japan. This studio was supervised by Shigeru Ban, and he didn't ask anything except the site and the structure. Instead of making one small building in one small site, I decided to infect the whole street. There used be a shopping street at any residential districts, but since the high economic growth in Japan, those local shopping streets are died out by the political urban zoning and nowadays they barely exist in Tokyo. The project is to raise the local community through proposing 6 new local rules of street use.
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Rule. 4
Rule. 1
Rule. 2
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Rule. 6
Rule.1
Rule.2
Rule.3
To set the 1st floor as the commerce, owners are allowed to
This architecture has not limited area. People rent spaces as
Superimposing wooden flames forms the structure.
construct 2nd floor striding over the street.
much as they want to live or do businesses.
1F flames and 2F flames stand next to each other and points of contract support 2nd floor. 400mm
Dwelling
Public
Dwelling
Dwelling
Commerce
Public
Commerce 6m
3m
7m
8m
1F Frames 2F Straddling Frames 2F One Side Frames
Rule.4
Rule.5
This architecture is not only for residents but also for the city.
Shops overflowing to the street are accepted, but the street still belongs to public, and every local resident has the user right.
The idea propose new way of human life to the banal and boring
1F is not always shops nor 2F is not always dwelling. People decide how to use the building according to their merits.
residential district that has no human activities on streets.
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This could be a new district-center for everybody.
1F PLAN
1:400
2F PLAN
1:400
Rule.6 To keep the building airy, human activities overlap each other. On 1F, many public activities range like a prado. On 2F, many lives range. This makes a new urban-scape that the zoning system has been demolishing.
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Roof Over the River Bridge of Revival Workshop Tokyo University Master Course 2013
Program :
Bridge to link shopping district and public park district
Theme :
To propose a bridge that could be a symbol of revival for Minamisanriku in Tohoku
Site :
Minamisanriku, Tohoku Where the earthquake and Tsunami attacked in 3.11.
Jury :
Kengo Kuma, Masato Araya, Katsuya Hirano, Masahiro Harada (mount fuji architects)
Time Period :
05/2013 - 06/2013
Prize :
Selected as the 1st prize
Software :
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This is a workshop to propose a bridge in Minamisanriku where the earthquake and Tsunami attacked in 3.11. We were asked to design a bridge on the actual site that are chosen by juries. The river set as the site is deviding two designed areas such as shopping district and public park district. There is a plan to make a pedestrian street through two district and the bridge is set in the middle of them. To be a symbol of the town, I propose to span a roof instead of so-called bridge.
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Bridge is originally for joining two areas that
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are divided by a river or a valley. Bridge was considered that it doesn’t have any other functions. However if bridge was used as a room with a purpose, what would it be like. As bridge connects two areas, it has a potential to be a core for a city. I didn’t choose to span a bridge, instead I chose to span a roof that becomes a symbol of Minamisanriku. Under the roof, Minamisanriku stays together as one. Concept
1. Span an arch bridge that becomes the basic structure over a river
2. Extrude the pedestrian street from both sides to cover the arch
3. Two sides jostling against each other get turned upward
Deal Drawing
Ray to Park
Flow from city center
Timber from Tohoku Stringer 031
Square Pipe (200 x 200 t=12) Link to River
This bridge has two different roles. To the
Chevron Beam H-Steel (500 x 300)
shopping district, the bridge catches the urban axis and to the park district, the bridge is used as an observation platform.
Structure To jostle againt each other, the structure becomes stronger
g Beam String
The arched beam structure is completed as the
Short Pillar Beam String
beam strings attached to the arched beams.
Wood Deck
Chevron beams are connected to it to reinforce
Arched Beam
more strengths.
H-Steel (500 x 300)
4. The street and the bridge joined together as one structure
5. Cut off the bridge with semicylinder volumes to make some openings
Landscape of Shopping District Side
have functions for urban activities
7. A roof is spanned over the town and people gather under the roof
Landscape of Park District Side
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6. Some slabs slide into the openings and they
Bridge of Revival Competition
Spreading House, Parasited City TamaHome Design Competition 2014
Program :
Detached Housing
Theme :
New House Building for Smart Town
Site :
Tama, Tokyo, Japan The site is a new residential area, developed by TamaHome, which will be completed in 2016. We are asked to design 5 detached housing in the site. These houses are required to have public functions.
Jury :
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), Manabu Chiba, Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Yasuaki Onoda, etc.
Time Period :
12/2014 - 01/2015
Prize :
Honourable Mention
Software :
Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator
In Japan, we have a huge public transportation network that brings decreasing number of new car sales. Although the situation is showing that we ought to grow out of motorization, most Japanese house makers still provide houses with their own car parking lots. In this competition, I was asked to design 5 detached housings in the middle of new developed residential area. I decided to make these 5 detached housings like a building block, so that each unit could be removed to the parking lot of each ordinary houses in the area.
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Combination of 5 Basic Units This architecture is composed of 6mĂ—2.5m elongated units. Residents can customise to extend and reduce the units as
2.5m 6m
they want and need. The positions and the size of openings are also decided freely as what they use the space for. This unit is used not only for housing, but also for commercial space that local residents could rent or for public space that anybody could use.
Type.A
Dimentions of Basic Unit
Type.B
Units Combined
Type.C
Type.D
Type.E
3 Phases of Construction This architecture has 3 phases to be completed. Building in stage, the space will be many different patterns as the time pass.
Phase.1
Phase.2
Phase.3
At first, provide 5 basic spaces for residence. This 7mĂ—7m space has minimum functions for housing and garage.
Residents add units to the volume, as many as they need according to the number of their families and how they live.
Connecting the building to frontal road and lot line, new units are added. The spaces are used for shops and public.
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Rental Unit for Parking Lot As the data shows, the number of new car sales in the city center section is decreasing annually. That means car prevalence will be smaller in the near future. According to the situation, we could imagine that
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decrease, I propose the system to use the unnecessary parking lot into a part of housing.
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Local residents could buy or rent units to fill their empty parking lot to extend their house or have external commercial space.
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Numer of new car sales is decreasing since 1988
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No. 2-1-1
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2.5m
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The size of 6mĂ—2.5m is the same size as ordinary parking lot of normal housing in this residential area.
Parcel Identification Numbers
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2.5m
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many houses in cities no longer need the parking lots. As I postulate that the necessity of parking lot will
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6m
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Ordinary Parking Lot is the same size as one unit
No. 2-1-2
No. 2-2-15
From Residential Street to Multipurpose Street This new residential district has no public or economic functions, just like most of the Japanese residential areas. As the number of new car sales decreases, to change the function of each parking lots, we could provide a totally new street in the area.
Site Plan Units that finished its role moved to the empty parking.
Ordirnary Townscape
Townscape with Unit
Afterword Gratitude for reading my portfolio. Through the works in this, not only the skill I studied, but also I tried to phrase my own utopia as Karl Manheim said “Thinking of Utopia avail than thinking of Ideology�. I believe that a miscellany has to be the accumulation of what I thought and experienced going beyond the accumulation of skills. If these works could depict my background itself, I am very grateful. Again thank you for reading through this page.
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