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The glass façade giving a large inclination to the walls
| This project entailed the consolidation of a training center and a museum which were at different locations in Kyoto, as well as the construction of an in-house child-care center, on a site adjacent to the OMRON Kyoto Center Building. Although the site is close to Kyoto station, with tradesmen's houses and shrines unchanged since olden times with rich green land in the surrounding area. The location is like a "valley" where wind can blow through in the middle of the city where high-rise construction is progressing. In preparing for the plans, thought was given to what type of "shape" would make the most of the charm of this "green valley," rather than simply the construction of a building covering the site. With regard to the space required for each room, the floors with research rooms required large space, and the rooms for other purposes did not require such large space. Based on the space required for each purpose, the floors were stacked up accordingly, and by wrapping them up in transparent glass, the "body volume" of the overall building was kept to a minimum. There was also a need to secure a passageway on the eastern side of the building, so by increasing the inclination of the wall, a gentle façade "shape" was created, like the silhouette of trees, as if being symmetric, but not symmetric. For the research rooms and the child-care rooms, three fluorescent lights were laid out for one group, and by randomly placing ball lamps in the void and passageway spaces, at night, the lit-up space reminds one of the gentle light of paper lanterns. |
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