Warm Transparency Hospital by Yoshiaki Tanaka

Warm Transparency Hospital by Yoshiaki Tanaka is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award i Guld in Arkitektur-, Bygnings- og Konstruktionsdesign Competition Category.

GuldArkitektur· 2020

Warm Transparency Hospital

by Yoshiaki Tanaka

Client: TSC Architects

A' Design Award i Guld Winner in Arkitektur Category

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The Design

About Warm Transparency Hospital

Konventionelt har et hospital en tendens til at være et rum, der har dårlig naturlig farve eller materiale på grund af kunstigt strukturelt materiale for at forbedre funktionelt og effektiviteten. Derfor føler patienter, at de adskiller sig fra deres daglige liv. Der skal tages hensyn til et behageligt miljø, hvor patienter kan tilbringe og fri for stress. TSC arkitekter giver et åbent og behageligt rum ved at indstille et L-formet åbent loft og de store tagskærme ved at bruge en masse træmateriale. Den varme gennemsigtighed i denne arkitektur forbinder mennesker og medicinske tjenester.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Guld

Warm Transparency Hospital er vinder af A' Design Award i Guld, en uhyre prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles førsteklasses, vidunderlige og fremragende designs. Guldvinderne er yderst innovative, højt visionære og glamourøst blændende skabelser, der afspejler deres designeres geni, visdom og dygtighed. Warm Transparency Hospital forventes at være en højt rost, trendsættende og monumental opfindelse, der leverer hidtil uset værdi. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Guld, er et spektakulært, respekteret projekt, som i høj grad gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Warm Transparency Hospital skaber intense følelser af begær, vækker passion, opmuntrer kreativitet og fascinerer os.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The large wood eaves provide a space to receive the patients into the clinic and a veranda where the patients can feel the sense of secure even outside of the building. Inside the clinic, TSC architects provided a waiting space where the patients can feel the warmth of sunny and an open feeling by setting the L-shaped open ceiling space along the tangent. A plenty of wood material was used for portions touched by people directly for reducing nervousness. This building has "Warm transparency" for the town.
Dimensions & Packaging: Areas: Site dimension 711 sqm / Plot ratio 53% / built area 374 sqm / Total floor space: 501 sqm
Tags: Architecture, Hospital, Design, Life, Health, Public, Clinic, Warm, Transparency, Wood
Production Technology: Details of support structure: steel frame.
To configure the large eaves and the L-shaped open ceiling space, TSC architects adopted a steel structure with a brace. A space truss on the upper part of the open ceiling space plays an important role. Although a steel Y-shaped column, which consists of the space truss, are interposed between the wood material, the steel members are intentionally visible to show the functional means of the steel member.
Design Challenge: A space truss on the upper part of the open ceiling space plays an important role to configure the large eaves and the L-shaped open ceiling space. To hide a horizontal member of the open ceiling space, the space truss is consisted of members of a half-size H-shaped steel and a flat bar. The surface rigidities of the space truss and the roof support the large eaves while securing a power transmission in the horizontal direction.
Research: A hospital tends to be a space that has poor natural color or material due to artificial structure material to improve the functionally and the efficiency. Therefore, patients feel that they are being apart from their daily life. A consideration for a comfortable environment where patients can spend and free from stress, should be taken.
TSC architects provide an open, comfortable space by setting an L-shaped open ceiling space and the large eaves by using a plenty of wood material.
Inspiration: The client requested a clinic where we can feel warmth of wood. TSC architects tried to achieve a clinic that has "Warm transparency" by using a plenty of wood material for both the interior and exterior material. And TSC architects set the large wood eaves extended from inside of the building to a tangent between the town that has traffic laden street. The large wood receive the patients and generates a space where the patients can feel the sense of secure even outside the building, being a symbol of the town.
Project Duration: Project duration did from May 2018 to January 2019.
Location is 4-72 Kinjocho Kita-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture.
Operation Flow: The large eaves and the L-shaped open ceiling space generate a gradation for the boundary between gradation town and the clinic. They created a comfortable intermediate space in addition to a function as a building space. The L-shaped open ceiling space connects a spaces of the rehabilitation room and the waiting room on the second floor in addition to the outside and the inside of use clinic so that the patients can spend relax, comfortable time as if they are being in a lobby.
Patents: Yoshiaki Tanaka
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Hiroshi Tanigawa
Image #2: Photographer Hiroshi Tanigawa
Image #3: Photographer Hiroshi Tanigawa
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