Tokyo Apartment 集合住宅 by Wataru Omameuda and Hiroko Hayashi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
鉄建築· 2025
Tokyo Apartment 集合住宅
by Wataru Omameuda and Hiroko Hayashi
Client: Coplus Co,Ltd
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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About Tokyo Apartment 集合住宅
この場所から見える銀杏並木の眺望が非常に心地よいため、その快適さを反映するように窓の開口部が選定された。ホテルのデザインエッセンスと、コロナ禍以降の暮らし、建物の長寿命化と持続可能な構造への取り組み、集合住宅におけるコミュニティといった社会課題の解決を融合させることで、従来とは一線を画すものとなっている。非日常的なライフスタイルの空間体験を提供する。シンプルで堅牢かつ型破りな素材の組み合わせが、都市において穏やかで平和な佇まいを生み出している。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Tokyo Apartment 集合住宅は、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Tokyo Apartment 集合住宅は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Tokyo Apartment 集合住宅は、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The view of the rows of ginkgo trees from this location was so pleasant that we intuitively decided on the position and orientation of the window openings to incorporate this into the living scene. We transformed the elements needed for homes in the current era into three concepts and designed them as an apartment community, a post-corona home, and a structural platform. In this way, we wanted to provide a space experience that is a bit different from what we have seen before, with an extraordinary feeling of living, like a hotel and a second home.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Site area: 168.38Square meter Total floor area: 825.07Square meter Building coverage ratio: 64.65% Floor area ratio: 398.66% Structure: reinforced concrete structure Scale: 10 stories above ground Total number of units: 9 units
- Tags
- After-corona residence, Community, Structure design, hotel design, Openness
- Production Technology
- The shape of a tower apartment complex is determined by its structural design. Challenging structural stress transmission by eliminating the central reinforced concrete column and creating a void slab. In order to secure a view to the southwest, the south and west beams were turned into reverse beams. We designed these three structural ideas and the facade at the same time, and created a soft expression by using concrete formwork material with cedar planks for the pillars and beams.
- Design Challenge
- Many apartment complexes in Japan tend to focus too much on security and privacy, and not on the idea of community. As a result, face-to-face neighbor relations tend to occur, such as lack of building maintenance and aesthetics, and troubles between tenants. In this plan, we focused on the idea of a new community and the lounge as a place to create opportunities. By intentionally zoning this lounge into the entrance lobby, we have made it a symbol of the apartment complex.
- Research
- Under the theme of "Chemical reaction by adding a community", we have designed various accommodations and housing facilities according to the times, environment and circumstances. With the design of cooperative houses as the main axis, we have built up architecture and space creation with an eye on the target, based on our achievements that capture the ideas of real users.
- Inspiration
- After going through the coronavirus pandemic, I have been thinking about new communities. Inspired by the zoning of hotel lobby lounges, where people can casually drop by, we set this up as a place to start a community in an apartment complex. Under the soft shade of the symbol tree, we hope that it will be a space with a sense of openness and calm, and that it will function as a lounge where residents can communicate with each other as they pass by, and where guests can socialize.
- Project Duration
- Design period: September 2020 to June 2021 Construction period: February 2023 to July 2024
- Operation Flow
- With the theme of openness in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the building has one unit per floor, with windows on three sides (excluding the elevators and stairs) to allow wind to pass through, and a spacious 2m-deep balcony to make this area bright and bright. We created a spacious verandah-like exterior space. The interior space has been designed as a flexible room that reflects the modern way of working, including a remote work room, online classes, and large storage space.
- Patents
- Copyright belongs to Coplus Co., Ltd.
- Team Members
- Hiroko Hayashi
- Image Credits
- Copyright belongs to Coplus Co., Ltd.
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