Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids 아파트 단지 by Akira Koyama is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 동상 in 건축, 건물 및 구조물 디자인 Competition Category.
동건축· 2021
Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids 아파트 단지
by Akira Koyama
Client: Key Operation Inc.
A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 건축 Category
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About Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids 아파트 단지
여섯 개의 보이드를 가진 후도마에 아파트는 도쿄에 위치한 14세대 규모의 5층 공동주택이다. 건물은 전면 폭이 좁고 안쪽으로 깊은 대지 위에 자리하며, 안길이 17미터, 폭 8미터의 규모를 갖는다. 각 매스의 네 모서리를 깎아내어 여섯 개의 수직 보이드를 형성했으며, 이를 통해 자연광이 각 세대 내부로 유입된다. 단지는 전면과 후면 두 개의 매스로 구성되고, 그 사이는 모든 층으로 이어지는 계단이 있는 개방형 복도로 분리된다. 이 복도는 여섯 개의 보이드를 연결하며 자연 환기의 통로 역할을 한다. 가로변 파사드는 워터젯으로 표면을 거칠게 처리한 마감의 구조벽으로, 거주자의 프라이버시를 보호한다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 동상
Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids 아파트 단지, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 동상 수상작으로, 창의성, 독창성, 영민함으로 돋보이는 뛰어난 디자인에 수여되는 높은 권위의 인정입니다. 동상 수상작은 충분히 숙련되고 인상적으로 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 폭넓은 경험, 상상력, 기지를 입증합니다. Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids 아파트 단지, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 사물로서 두드러지게 전문적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 동상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 모범 사례를 담고 있으며 세부에 대한 주의로 훌륭합니다. Fudomae Apartment with Six Voids 아파트 단지, 이 작품은 필요를 훌륭하게 충족하고 욕망에 닿으며 감정을 매료하고 호기심을 불러일으킵니다.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A five-storey apartment complex of 14 units was developed for a parcel along a small local commercial avenue in Tokyo. To develop a parcel relatively deep with tight frontage in central Tokyo, the main theme for drawing the plan focused on supply of daylight and airflow throughout, while retaining density and thus enhancing rents. In this regard, a void to meet the local ordinance requirement of an evacuation route and additional voids were established.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The site is a deep parcel with tight frontage, it measures 17 m to the back, 8 m in width. Site area is 155.07m2, Building area is 113.17m2, and Total floor area is 527.68m2. The building consequently comprises two volumes, front and rear, separated by open corridors installed with stairs ascending to all floors for access to the flats.
- Tags
- Apartment, Window, Voids, Post Coronavirus, Rental Complex, Pet, Cat Owners
- Production Technology
- Extruded cement panels are used for the wall rising above the outdoor passage in order to reduce the load. The street façade also rises four storeys as structural wall with a water-jet chipped finish. This distinctive expression faces the street and provides robust privacy for sleeping quarters behind the wall. The windows of the street-side voids are effectively set back, while the wall roughened by water jet draws passers’-by attention to enhance window privacy.
- Design Challenge
- The building code in Japan establishes standards for the specific planar area of openings with respect to the floor space of a room. For residential complexes, the area for openings must be at least 1/7 of the floor space of each room. In relation to the area of a window opening, the distance from the window to adjacent building and the height from the top of the building have a large impact on the calculated effective opening area.
- Research
- The number of pet cats in Japan is nearing 10 million in 2020. Lifestyle changes brought upon by Covid-19 have increased the desire for comfort from pets.
Important themes based on our Covid-19 experience prompt us to consider inclusion of outdoor space. This flat complex establishes voids for a deep parcel with poor air passage to the back in order to secure natural ventilation. - Inspiration
- The four corners of each volume are notched to establish six vertical voids that bring light down into each unit for a heartening indoor environment. For a plan such as this, surrounded by buildings on neighbouring property all around, the lower floors for the new building are often unable to secure effective openings to draw sufficient daylight. The notched corners of each volume establish voids in front of neighbouring property and enable window openings facing the voids to provide effective daylight access that meets building code.
- Project Duration
- The project is located in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The project was started in July 2019, and finished in July 2020.
- Operation Flow
- A typical studio flat plots the kitchen space and unitized bathroom that require plumbing to the left and right of a central corridor opening up into a bedroom in the back. The studio flats in this complex, however, arrange their bath area towards the core of their volume and corridor along an exterior wall. The respective corridors internally connect the six voids as thoroughfares of natural ventilation.
- Team Members
- Architect: Akira Koyama + KEY OPERATION INC./ARCHITECTS
Planning & development: ASCOT CORP.
Structure Engineer: Delta Structural Consultants
Service Engineer: Comodo
Contractor: Nakajima Kenko - Image Credits
- All Images: Yoshifumi Moriya / Nacasa & Partners Inc.
Video: Akira Koyama / Key Operation Inc.
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