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VIORO
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VIORO is a commercial tenant complex which has been constructed in
the center of Fukuoka City. The overall building displays the expression
of a "jewelry box," designed to look like a fashion showcase. By showing
the feeling of each of the stores seen by looking through the glass
wall curtains, the building presents a new excitement to the city. The
spatial structure created with a contrast between the warm and cool
expression of the materials expresses continuity and transparency. Client: Tenjin Holdings Co., Ltd. |
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This work was for the passenger terminal at Bangkok's second international
airport, which opened in the fall of 2006. The theme for the design
was "the display of a large space with a large steel frame truss, membrane
and glass, and the use of modern technology." This required a high degree
of construction technology, for the complicated shape of the three-dimensional
truss, the 350,000 square meters of glass, and the world's first three-layer
membrane structure. The three-dimensional steel super truss for the
roof with a huge span was assembled on the ground and lifted up, and
the sky lights were installed using the traveling method after being
produced at a plant, realizing good results with both productivity and
safety. Client: New Bangkok International Airport Co., Ltd. |
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Right-on Tsukuba Building
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This project entailed the construction of the new Head Office Building
commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Right-on, the
specialty casual clothes store company on a site just a two-minute walk
from "Tsukuba Station" on the Tsukuba Express Line. The exterior appearance
of the building has been designed in a brick tone, with the image of
the SOHO warehouse area of New York. The lower part of the building
has the store laid out, with a brick screen exterior, and the upper
part has offices with brick tone ceramic louvers for the exterior. All
four sides of the building are surrounded by louvers, and in order to
maintain the quality of the characteristic exterior with the huge area
of brick screens, a mock-up was first produced, and details were decided
with regard to the tones, shapes, and attachment angles of the materials,
through testing and consideration. Client: Right-on Co., Ltd. |
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HAKOZAKIGU Shrine project
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This shrine is one of the "Three Famous Hachiman Shrines" in Japan.
The project entailed the building of shrine offices, planned as part
of the work in commemoration of 1,080 years since the founding of Hakozakigu
Shrine in eastern Fukuoka City. The buildings consist of the shrine
office building, containing the shrine offices, the sacred room for
rituals, the amulet-issuing office, the back-office room building, and
the warehouse building, laid out parallel to the long approach road
from the sea. The layout of the back-office room building and the warehouse
building, by function, is designed to serve as a buffer zone between
the shrine office buildings and the outside roads, protecting the tranquility
of the enclosure from the clamor of the surrounding area. The exterior
appearance consists of the copper shingle semigabled large roof and
the simple design for the eaves, round columns for the steel frames,
decorative horizontal boards between the columns, and plaster, and along
with the vermilion of the lacquered column strip gives a sharp and light
feeling to the buildings, which were designed for the creation of a
chic, and rhythmic new space for prayer. Client: Religious corporation HAKOZAKIGU Shrine |
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Museum of Coke History
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A museum was planned to be constructed along with an administration
building, on the side of the plant facing the Seto Inland Sea, as work
to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Kansai Coke and
Chemicals. With a total design covering the displays and the facilities,
the aim was for a facility that expresses the history and spirit of
the company, with a sense of unity between the displays and the building.
With regard to the exterior appearance, while the pattern of the windows
of the existing building has been extended, a symbolic expression has
been given to the existence of the museum with the oval shape of the
roof. The colonnaded structure of the display rooms gives continuation
to the "Koppers-type 248-gate Kakogawa Coke Furnace" image of the plant.
At the same time, each of the columns marks a time in history, and overall
marks the 50-year history of the company, the world history of coke
and a promise for the future. Client: KANSAI COKE AND CHEMICALS CO., LTD. |
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OMRON KUSATSU 3RD BUILDING
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This project entailed the construction of a facility for the unification
of development and production through the consolidation of various business
departments that were spread out over the Omron Kusatsu Branch. The
building, measuring 66 by 54 meters, has white earthquake-resisting
walls on four sides with as large as possible openings by consolidating
the openings, which are composed of glass curtain walls and wooden deck
terraces. As contact points with the rich green of the lakefront around
Lake Biwa originating from these openings, the outside environment flows
into and crosses the workspace from all four sides. These contact points
also function for vertical movement (elevators and stairways) as well
as for refreshment areas, giving a human atmosphere to this production
facility. Client: OMRON Corporation |
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