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The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت by Tetsuya Matsumoto

The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award سنہری انعام in فنِ تعمیر، عمارت اور ڈھانچہ ڈیزائن Competition Category.


سونافنِ تعمیر· 2020

The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت

by Tetsuya Matsumoto

Client: TIA Co., Ltd.,

A' Design Award سنہری انعام Winner in فنِ تعمیر Category

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The Design

About The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت

پولی کیوبائڈ انشورنس خدمات فراہم کرنے والی کمپنی ، ٹی آئی اے کے لئے نیا صدر دفتر عمارت ہے۔ پہلی منزل کو سائٹ کی حدود اور 700 ملی میٹر قطر پانی کے پائپ کی شکل دی گئی تھی جو فاؤنڈیشن کی جگہ کو محدود کرتے ہوئے سائٹ کو زیرزمین پار کررہا ہے۔ دھاتی ساخت ساخت کے مختلف حصوں میں گھل جاتی ہے۔ ستون اور شہتیر خلائی ترکیب سے غائب ہوجاتے ہیں ، کسی شے کے تاثر کو پیش کرتے ہیں ، جبکہ عمارت کا بھی خاتمہ کرتے ہیں۔ والیمٹریک ڈیزائن کو ٹی آئی اے کے لوگو نے متاثر کیا ہے کہ وہ عمارت کو خود ہی کمپنی کی نمائندگی کرنے والے شبیہ میں بدل دے۔

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award سنہری انعام

The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت A' Design Award سنہری انعام کا فاتح ہے، جو اول درجے کے شاندار اور ممتاز ڈیزائنز کو دیا جانے والا انتہائی باوقار اعتراف ہے۔ سنہری انعام کے فاتحین انتہائی جدید، دور اندیش اور چکاچوند کر دینے والی تخلیقات ہیں جو اپنے ڈیزائنرز کی ذہانت، حکمت اور مہارت کی عکاسی کرتی ہیں۔ The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت سے توقع کی جاتی ہے کہ وہ ایک انتہائی سراہی جانے والی، رجحان ساز اور یادگار ایجاد ہوگا جو بے مثال قدر فراہم کرتی ہے۔ A' Design Award سنہری انعام جیتنے والا یہ ڈیزائن ایک شاندار، معزز منصوبہ ہے جو بے حد فائدہ مند ہے اور فن، سائنس، ڈیزائن اور ٹیکنالوجی کی حدود کو آگے بڑھاتا ہے۔ The PolyCuboid دفتر کی عمارت خواہش کے شدید احساسات پیدا کرتا ہے، جذبہ ابھارتا ہے، تخلیقی صلاحیت کی حوصلہ افزائی کرتا ہے اور ہمیں فریفتہ کرتا ہے۔

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The PolyCuboid is the new headquarter office for TIA.co.ltd, a company that provides insurance services. The building is a composition of three imperfect cuboid shapes that interlace to build up the different spaces. The composition further results in an atrium linking the different functions on the different levels and providing the interior with a large amount of natural light. The metallic structure vanishes from the space syntax turning the building into a sculptural object.
Dimensions & Packaging
Gross Built Area: 621sqm
W20825mm x D13405mm x H18680mm
Tags
Japan, office, insurance, volume, minimalism, interlace, workplace, architecture, atrium
Production Technology
The building stand on a metallic frame structure for its four levels. The complex geometry of the distinct cuboids and their superposition creating half levels accentuates the complexity of the metallic frame that is concealed inside the invisible parts of the volumes. The exterior wall cladding is a polished composite cement panel called Miraia and produced by Nichiha. The interior finishes vary from wallpaper, tiles, black oxide steel, stainless steel, and many other materials.
Design Challenge
The main challenge of the design was the water service pipe crossing the site underneath in the middle, limiting the construction to half the area, and calling for cantilevered spaces in the upper levels to compensate. Instead of a conventional building with balconies, recovering to the use of interlaced cuboids results in peculiar spaces and connections that needed to be carefully managed. Privacy and interaction together with the daylighting had also major importance in the design process.
Research
The interaction between three imperfect cuboid forms can create either an alteration of the form or a nonfunctional architectural space. the alteration happens mostly for technical reasons, such as parapet wall placements, ducts, or simply beam locations. How can space syntax be kept clear while saving the entity of each volume? And what kind of spatial and functional interactions could be created between them? Further, how can a volume identity be kept while using different materials.
Inspiration
The PolyCuboid design was inspired by the client initials, TIA, creating the three distinct volumes at first. The design process developed the volumes to the later abstract cuboid forms. The functionality and connection of spaces were inspired by a more dynamic and yet relaxing approach to work that the client want to implement in their headquarter.
Project Duration
Project start: September 2017.
Construction start: December 2018.
Project/Construction End: December 2019.

Location: Designed and constructed in Himeji City, Japan.
Operation Flow
The entrance gives on to the reception counter, elevator hall and a reception space furnished in sofas and coffee table. A raw of private desks for the employees behind an inside glass facade occupies most of the ground level. The Atrium at the other end connects the three first levels through dynamic resting spaces. the second level is occupied by the CEO office, a meeting room, and booth desks, while the third and forth level includes a gym, a recreational room and a dinning space.
Image Credits
Image #1: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, PolyCuboid, 2019.
Image #2: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, PolyCuboid, 2019.
Image #3: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, PolyCuboid, 2019.
Image #4: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, PolyCuboid, 2019.
Image #5: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, PolyCuboid, 2019.

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