DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE PART-A 2017 CHOI YU RI 1
CONTENTS
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PART-A Contrnts / Introduction
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AIRSPACE TOKYO Summary
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AIRSPACE TOKYO Introduction
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Design Context
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Fabrication and Implementation
INTRODUCTION
CHOI YU RI choiyr6614@naver.com Architecture in NAMSEOUL Univ.
“Digital architecture is always new, varied and interesting.”
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AIRSPACE TOKYO Tokyo, Japan _Screen Faรงade Design: Faulders Studio, with Proces2 in San Francisco Building Design: Studio M/Hajime Masubuchi in Tokyo
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The project creates a 3,000 square foot exterior building skin for a new four story multi-family dwelling unit with professional photography studios in Tokyo, Japan. Located in the Ota-ku district, the site was previously occupied by the owner’s family with a residence uniquely wrapped by a layer of dense vegetation. Since the entire site was razed to accommodate construction for the new larger development, the design invents an architectural system that performs with similar attributes to the demolished green strip and creates a new atmospheric space of protection.(1) Conceived as a thin interstitial environment, the articulated densities of the porous and open-celled meshwork are layered in response to the inner workings of the building’s program. Airspace Tokyo is a zone where the artificial blends with nature: sunlight is refracted along its metallic surfaces; rainwater is channeled away from exterior walkways via capillary action; and interior views are shielded behind its variegated and foliage-like cover.(2)
(1) Details can be found on Page 8. (2) http://faulders-studio.com/AIRSPACE-TOKYO
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LAYERED REDUNDANCY
Airspace Surfaces: responsive
mediation through layered redundancy, Thom Faulders
Introduction
The Airspace Screen is a filter-like buffer zone constructed in addition to the building envelope. It is conceived as a thin cellular environment that engages both the building and outside forces, with articulated densities varying in response to the inner workings of the building program and occupants. The resulting wrapper creates an opportunistic and compressed atmospheric zone between public and private. Framed views shift as one moves alongside its surfaces, weather is directed away from living spaces and outdoor walkways, and light is refracted along its smooth and reflective surfaces.
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Design Context Located on a busy five-point intersection within the primarily residential Ota-ku district of Tokyo, the site was previously occupied by a traditional single-family residence (built in the 1940’s) previously occupied by the client and setback from the street upon two lots. Unique to this particular site was its large contiguous density of lush vegetation that fully surrounded this house, and provided a highly identifiable protective zone separating the private dwelling spaces from the street. To allow for the construction of a significantly larger building on this same site, the original house and vegetation were fully razed.
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A New Screen Facade The author, working in San Francisco, was commissioned by Studio M to independently design a screen faรงade that would give the new four-story building a recognizable identity within its immediate context. In addition it needed to provide a level of privacy from the street for the occupants living in the open-plan private residences, and would serve to buffer the weather for exterior walkways and terraces. Formally, the screen faรงade was conceived to unify the separated Living Unit blocks on the top floors of the building with the commercial spaces and landscaped areas below. The entire building and screen were completed in the summer of 2007.
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Fabrication and Implementation One of the greatest concerns facing the design of the Airspace Screen was inventing a method for its internal structural support. As a means to fuse with the transient light and weather conditions, the screen needed to be wrapped around the building as if it were floating: in other words, as an atmospheric airspace devoid of heavy supports. We initiated discussions with several faรงade specialists and fabricators in Japan, with the structural system emerging as a pliable system of 6 mm (1/4 in) diameter stainless steal rods vertically stretched between the building super-structure. Spaced 45 cm (18 in) apart and running in pairs (for each skin) along the entire length of the screen faรงade, these very thin and reflective supports were designed to virtually disappear visually, keeping the openings for views unobstructed and the irregular pattern free from geometric structural modulation. Once built, the entire steel rod structure would be very lightweight, ductile and flexible.
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