Nippo Junction 本社 by Takahiro Ichimaru and Tetsuya Tatenami is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 建築・建物・構造物デザイン Competition Category.
銀建築· 2020
Nippo Junction 本社
by Takahiro Ichimaru and Tetsuya Tatenami
Client: Nippo Corporation
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 建築 Category
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About Nippo Junction 本社
日豊本店は、都市インフラ、高速道路、公園が重なる交差点に建設されています。日豊は道路建設のリーディングカンパニーです。彼らは、デザインコンセプトの基礎として、「道」を意味する「道」を「さまざまな部品をつなぐもの」と定義しています。ミチは建物と都市のコンテクストを結びつけ、個々のワークスペースを互いに結びつけます。ミチは、創造的なつながりを築き、ジャンクションプレイスを実現するために強化されました。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Nippo Junction 本社は、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Nippo Junction 本社は、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Nippo Junction 本社は、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This project is rebuilding the Nippo Head Office built over a multilayered intersection of urban infrastructure, an expressway and a park. Nippo is a leading company in road construction.
By drawing this multilayered intersection of Michi (street in Japanese) on laminated workplace, Michi connects not only physical spaces, but also the individuality and distinctiveness of each place.
Michi was enhanced to forge creative connections and to realize a unique work place possible only here at Nippo. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Composition of Double-skin Façade on north-west side
1. Fan shaped outer skin
- Two-sided support system with frame and SSG System
2. Fan Stone provides support to counter wind forces on both skin layers
- A dynamic facade composed from stone mullions and glass panels expresses both the forward looking and reliable company identities
3. Completely flat mullion-less MPG inner skin
- enables use of inner spaces directly up to glass panels - Tags
- architecture, facade, glass, headquaters, nippo, doubleskin, tokyo, japan
- Production Technology
- The Edge between urban environment ,Facade
Double skin glazing on the north-east sides are arranged in a staggered folding fan layout optimized for natural ventilation, reduction of direct sunlight and opening out to vistas, actively engaging prevailing winds and direct sunlight, and minimizing usage of blinds. The cavity between double skin glazing is used for natural ventilation and for reducing wind speed and ambient city noises to provide an open workplace connected to urban elements - Design Challenge
- The Metropolitan Expressway runs at the foot of the new headquarters. The Metropolitan Expressway is a river before the Tokyo Olympics. Therefore, a revetment retaining wall of the river was left in the site, and it was necessary to construct the basement while leaving it. A seismic isolation structure is adopted so that the headquarters function can be maintained even in the case of a large earthquake.
- Research
- Japan needs an exterior plan to prepare for typhoons, and very careful consideration was required for setting the wind pressure of the double skin facade. Since this exterior incorporates a stone, by setting the interlayer displacement and construction accuracy at the time of the earthquake carefully, a very delicate exterior is realized.
- Inspiration
- The Michi is also expressed in the NIPPO logo and slogan, which is also the identity of this company. We regard Michi as the connection between various elements, and put Junction into the concept. Specifically, it is an attempt to reorganize the connection between neighboring cities and the connection between work places, which were sparse at the former head office, with the new head office plan. At the same time, it is a plan to re-identify the identity of a company.
- Project Duration
- Completion: 2018/6
Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo,JAPAN - Operation Flow
- Columns are placed between Quiet Michi and Ie spaces, defining a soft boundary. Each department or team can set its own relationship with Michi by variating the layout of the Ie zones for column intervals. The columns have inserts that allow a wide variety of boundaries to be set up according to worker needs. such as soft boundaries defined by furniture or partitions between columns and privatizing the Michi for how each space is used is possible
- Team Members
- Architect: Ichimaru Takahiro
Architect: Tatenami Tetsuya
Architect: Abe Nobuyuki - Image Credits
- Photographer:Hiroshi Funaki、Shota Hiyoshi
Kawasumi Kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office Co.,Ltd
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