Airspace Tokyo (2006)
article⁄Airspace Tokyo (2006)
abstract⁄Airspace Tokyo is designed to establish a screened buffer zone a thin, supercompact artificial ‘yard’ that protects the building’s occupants from the pressing context of the dense urban environment outside. The new white, minimalist fourstory building, designed by a Tokyo architect, is a stacked four unit multifamily dwelling with a garage and two large professional photography studios for lease on its ground floor. Located in the Otaku area of the city, the site was previously occupied by the owner with a sprawling residence that was wrapped by a layer of dense vegetation, and was unique in a city where open space is rare amidst the high demand for built space. Since the entire site is to now be razed to accommodate construction for the new and much larger development, the design intention for the screen is to invent an architectural system that performs with similar attributes to the demolished green strip and creates an atmospheric zone of protection. In effect, the demolished two meters of setback width of open ground space is now to be reduced into a new zone with a width of only 20 cm.
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| Year |
2006 |
| Authors |
Faulders, Thom. |
| Issue |
Synthetic Landscapes |
| Pages |
542-543 |
| Library link |
Gregory A. Luhan, Phillip Anzalone, Mark Cabrinha & Cory Clarke, 2006. bib⁄Synthetic Landscapes. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
airspace-tokyo |
