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- Architects: Yoshi Kishida/2001
- Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- Area: 90.9 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Shimizu Ken
- Construction: ROOVICE
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The project is a renovation of two rooms of 50-year-old rein forced concrete apartment building for renting offices.
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What is needed to a renting office in this times when anyone easily access to property information and have a comparative review, that is office space is available environment for a diversified work styles and business model.
Plan
Then, We planned a hypothetical ceiling that flexibly correspond to a borrower by turning vinyl cable that is usually intertwined complicatedly into a grid form with backing materials for construction of suspended ceiling, such as threaded rods and ceiling joints. The function necessary for a office space is storage to the ceiling, and let the floor free to tolerate any office environment and the things that it belong to there.
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Furthermore, We put other new things carefully to adjust the contrast of the space for that the space acquires a specific characters of renovation.
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The area that is usually invisible from a skeleton to a ceiling is given a resolution, and appears a kind of homogeneity. We handle the specific character as the open environment, which support the office space.
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The space obtains “Ambiguous border / The various flow lines and contact point / A free layout” and create scenery like no one has ever seen.
Sig Nordal 