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| Shigeru
Hioki, AIA |
CASIO
KOFU WELFARE FACILITIES |
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Main use:
Welfare facilities
Building area:
1,880m2
Total floor area:
2,579m2
Casio Kofu Welfare Facilities was planned as a
shared public space between two existing Casio
group companies. The building was required to
be a “Connector” to join the south
and north wings as well as providing pleasant
environment and functions for the staff. The building
overlooking the natural beauty of the southern
Japan Alps was designed with these keywords in
mind, “Passage” and “Continuity”. |
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| Chris
Brooks, AIA |
Aozora
Bank Data Center |
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Location:
Aozora Bank Data Center, 3F
Fuchu-shi, Tokyo
Client:
Aozora Bank, Ltd.
Size: 2,230
sqm
PAE Service:
Interior Design, Mechanical Design, Electrical
Design, Engineering Construction Drawings, and
Project Management.
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| Program:
The client wanted to convert a sterile datacenter
into a creative work environment that encourages
collaboration and the free exchange of ideas.
The floor supports a project-based organization
which involves staff rotation every few months.
A ring of project rooms separates individual workstations
from the central open meeting area. Wall graphics
activate the office area and common circulation
spaces. Exposed ceiling, casual seating, and indirect
lighting set a comfortable backdrop for social
and intellectual interaction among employees.
The program also includes an open snack bar and
locker facilities. |
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| Hisaya
Sugiyama, AIA |
Clean
Energy Factory Headquarters |
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Name:
Clean Energy Factory Headquarters
Location: Nemuro, Japan
Use:
company headquarters with dormitory for 17 employees
for a wind farm company Reinforced steel structure
Gross Floor Area: 2,274.80 sqm
Foot print area: 1,668.33 sqm
2 levels above and 1 level below grade, 1 level
penthouse |
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Design:
RTKL International Limited (Hisaya Sugiyama; chief
designer, Yoshiko Narafu; interior designer, Masako
Kawamoto; designer, Natsuki Nishino; designer,
Sachiko Miyake; designer, Kunihiko Kochi; designer)
Architect of Record:
Ishimoto Kenchiku Jimusho Sapporo Office (Yasuo
Tsutsubuchi, project architect)
Construction:
Takenaka Komuten Sapporo Office |
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| Jun
Mitsui, AIA |
The
Jewels of Aoyama |
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| This project
is a formation of two different buildings; the
main building has a limestone curtainwall façade
of slit-windows that angles rhythmically like
a folding screen, and in contrast to this, the
smaller corner building is an entirely glass volume.
Together with its very prominent neighboring building,
Prada, the buildings form a core complex for the
Miyuki Dori area. The corner building, surrounded
by its larger neighbors, is set off as a centerpiece |
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and creates a very strong identity for the complex
as a whole and for the Minami Aoyama area as well.
The different appearance of the two buildings
helps to enhance their relationship; the main
building’s limestone façade creates
a cohesive background to contrast with the entirely
glass surfaces of the corner building, while also
revealing activity of the shops behind through
its slit windows. By dividing the project into
two buildings, this provided the opportunity to
create an open plaza space in the center. This
space creates an extra circulation zone at this
central intersection, pulling people through the
complex, and making a dynamic space at the tenant’s
entry space. As people pass through, the intent
is to evoke a response through the impact of the
building design, and create interest in entering.
Set beside the stoic blue crystal volume of the
Prada building, the warm yellow limestone façade
changes with the moving perspective as people
walk by. With this contrast, the intent is to
ultimately compliment the surrounding buildings
by creating an animated street experience. |
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| Masami
Yonezawa, AIA |
Environmental
Aquarium |
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in China, the state of the aquarium is going
to change from a kind of an amusement park to
the type of an institution for the study of living
thing and to experience the environment with
ecology exhibition from the rise of the consciousness
to environmental protection.
This aquarium which will be opened in 2008 in the suburbs of Chengdu in Sichuan
is constituted by distributing pavilions to each of a tropical zone and a frigid
zone, and
it is planned so that it may become a park which
the whole should say also as an environmental
interactive exhibit institution taking advantage
of the site of 55,000 m2. The dolphin hall, which
is performed with the all weather type indoor
exhibition institution and can accommodate 2,500
spectators, is located in the center of the site,
and not only for the dolphin shows but also for
the ecological exhibition of dolphins. |
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