PATH, CURVE, COMMERCIAL
TAKATOTAMAGAMI ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / TAKATO TAMAGAMI: http://www.takatotamagami.net
BE-FUN DESIGN /TSUTOMU HASEGAWA: http://be-fun.com/
This is a building of a textile planning and trading company which handles the entire process from the production to retail. The site is well located on the corner plot near the fashionable city “Harajuku”. The client had been focusing on female apparel business, so the concept of our building design which is a metaphor of female beauty was suitable for them to put across their corporate identity. The components that characterizes this architecture are the two curved surface walls which dominate the entire space.These two walls form a shortcut path which connects the roads in front of each side of the corner plot. This path which looks like a narrow alley or the bottom of a ravine leads visitors inside the building, to the event hall in the basement and the showrooms on the first and second floors. The curves used in the elevation surfaces on the north side and the east side represent those of a female body. The graceful curved surface walls were created by connecting the curves with a straight line. These curved walls are used as a motif of this architecture, and you can see them not only in the fa ade but also in the internal spaces on each floor.
Name: SUNWELL MUSE Kita-sando
Usei?s show room, event hall, office
Clienti?s SUNWELL GROUP
Architecti?s TAKATOTAMAGAMI ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / TAKATO TAMAGAMI + BE-FUN DESIGN /TSUTOMU HASEGAWA
Structural Design Company / Engineer: Kazunari Yoshida
Constructioni?sTOYOSHIMA & CO.,LTD. + MORIYA CORPORATON.CO.,LTD.
photographeri?s Masaya Yoshimura
locationi?s SENDAGAYA, SHIBUYA-KU, TOKYO,JAPAN
date of completioni?s 29th, February, 2008
structurei?s reinforced concrete structure + steel structure
exterior wall materials: custom-made stucco/ timber pine natural resin varnish finish
roof materialsi?s seat waterproofing
interior wall materials: concrete finish/ timber pine natural resin varnish finish / plasterboard EP
interior floor materials: calcium silicate board/ cement plastering
building areai?s 221m2
total floor areai?s 992m2
