Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体 by Wataru Omameuda and Hiroko Hayashi

Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体 by Wataru Omameuda and Hiroko Hayashi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

铁建筑· 2025

Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体

by Wataru Omameuda and Hiroko Hayashi

Client: Coplus Co,Ltd

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体

从此处望去，成排的银杏树景观令人舒适惬意，因此窗户的开口设计也旨在映射这种舒适感。该设计在融合酒店设计精髓的同时，致力于解决后疫情时代的居住方式、建筑寿命延长、可持续结构以及公寓社区营造等社会议题，这与以往的设计手法有所不同。它为居住者提供了一种非凡生活方式的空间体验。简约、坚固且别具一格的材料组合，使其在城市中呈现出沉静祥和的外观。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Tokyo Apartment 住宅综合体因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

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.